When a young boy goes out to trick-or-treat on Halloween, he encounters a spooky forest full of bones.

A crisp wind blows. A voice howls. Masked figures dance by moonlight. And the taste of chocolate is in everyone's mouth. It's Halloween! Lee Bennett Hopkins captures the spirit of everyone's favorite holiday in this sweet and spooky collection of poems for beginning readers.

Eighteen poems celebrate the holiday of pumpkins, black cats, witches, and ghosts.

Thirteen Halloween poems for beginning readers.

Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis and the inimitable Jane Yolen team up in this ironic and witty take on the last moments in the lives of a variety of animals. Each poem in this darkly humorous collection is an epitaph of a different animal. Grouped by animal type, these posthumous poems are full of clever wordplay and macabre humor that will appeal to kids (and adults) of all ages.

A collection of poems celebrating Halloween, accompanied by acrylic illustrations featuring fanciful holiday scenes.

A Fright in the Night and Other Rhymes is Matthew "Morbid" Hartley's second collection of humorous poems for kids. In these pages, you'll find frighteningly funny poems about ghoulish ghosts, wicked witches, vile vampires and a host of other mischievous monsters. This delightfully nightmarish collection features illustrations by Lori "Looney" Escobar.

Set against the backdrop of a magnificent apple tree, this book uses poetry to cycle through the changes of the four seasons. Beginning with springtime, rhyming couplets take young readers through seasonal activities such as kite flying in the spring, summertime picnicking, fall trick-or-treating, all the way to building snowmen in the winter, before cycling back to spring again. One verse in each season references a major holiday, including Easter...