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Help A Reader Out: A Halloween Dog

 

A mystery keyword searcher asked:

What kids’ book for Halloween has a dog on the cover?

Oh, this is one of my favorites– as a librarian and a parent. Most likely you are thinking of The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey, also the genius behind Dogzilla, Kat Kong, and the famed Captain Underpants books. It’s one of my favorite read alouds for preschool-3rd grades. Here’s hoping you check back and find the answer you’re looking for!

Help A Reader Out: Short Giant?

Andrea wrote:

I am looking for a book that I lost a few years ago that I used to love to read. It was a book of complete of short stories from around the world and it was for children. I know that 2 of the words that are in the title are Giant and Short (giant was in red and short was in yellow). The cover had a combination of witches, vampires, zombies, tombstones, and children on the cover. It was dark blue and black to help give off the “scary book” feel. I hope you can help me find this book.

ETA: Andrea found the book herself. It is called Giant, Short, and Shivery, and is one of many collections assembled by Robert D. San Souci. Published in 1998, it is now out of print, but maybe you can find a copy at your library. If you don’t see that particular collection you might try More Short and Shivery and Even More Short and Shivery, available both in print and ebook format. San Souci has several other scary story collections, and also has written many picture books, mainly based on folktales and fairy tales, that would be appropriate for even children who don’t care for shivers down the spine.

Thanks, Andrea!

Help a Reader Out: No Twilight, Please

Tajah writes:

Do you have any werewolf books that is a series and the werewolves are in
high school and are in love (not twilight) thanks?

Well, right off the bat this makes me think of Maggie Stiefvater’s Wolves of Mercy Falls books but with the massive quantities of paranormal fiction for teens out there right now, surely you all can come up with some other recommendations?