Boo Time: Eek! Halloween! by Sandra Boynton

THE CHICKENS ARE NERVOUS.

DO YOU KNOW WHY?

Well, who wouldn't be?

It's dark, dark night. Strange figures glimmer into sight.

Pumpkins flicker, nose and eyes alight.
Pumpkins with glowing grins! Can that be right?

A mouse, more ginormous than he ought to be.
A witch and a wizard? Oh, Golly, Gee!

Who are these strange creatures? What will they do?
Suddenly the hens start to get a clue.
A pudgy shrouded shape, moaning BOO?

Now they know WHO!

Before the chickens totally chicken out, Pig sheds his spooky sheet.

Now they know what all this must mean. It's...

HALLOWEEN!

Sandra Boynton's holiday board book, Eek! Halloween! (Workman Publishing, 2016), is a treat (just the right size for that plastic treat pumpkin) for the youngest book lovers. Boynton sets off her familiar silly chickens and portly pig in bright Halloween colors set against black backgrounds that make them pop from the page, in this rhyming story which sets the stage for Halloween fun. "Kids anticipating their first Halloween will be easily convinced that the upcoming holiday is full of spooky fun," says School Library Journal.