The Haunted House Party

by Barry Louis Polisar

Book Overview

Join Barry Louis Polisar's host of ghosts, ghouls and goblins as the house shakes, the candlesticks fly, the TV pirouettes and a few ghosts take off their sheets...it's the liveliest Halloween party ever-until things get out of hand in this spell-binding but good-natured tale told in verse. On Halloween night, a child's party is visited by real ghosts and goblins. The problem is-everyone is in a mask and costume and no one knows who the real creatures are-until some of the real ghosts and goblins begin to show off for each other. The host and his friends learn, in a highly original way, how to deal with negative, destructive behavior and to take responsibility for their situation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938663216
• ISBN13: 9780938663218
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Rainbow Morning Music Alternatives
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.3" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 5 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 7

Customer Reviews

Very funny

When a young lad organizes a Halloween party, he doesn't realize that it is all of the uninvited guests who will cause him so much trouble. Ogres, witches, skeletons, and other horrors join his party, freely mingling with his costumed friends (who don't notice a thing!). However, when the uninvited guests begin to trash his home, the hero of the story lectures them and starts them to clean the mess they've made. But, can they clean the mess before his parents arrive?This cute book is presented all in rhyme, but the rhythm of the text is so lose, that it does not become oppressive (e.g. out/ home/ afternoon/ phone/ plans/ here/ not/ fear.). The illustrations (one page-sized picture for each page of text) are quite quirky, and add a lot to the general feel of the book. My seven-year-old son enjoyed this book immensely. He did not find the rhyming too heavy, so I wouldn't let that worry you.Overall, this is a great book.