Tonight Is The Night!: Boo! by Leslie Patricelli

It's Baby's first Halloween!

It's his first time to visit the pumpkin patch and pick a perfect pumpkin. Should it be very small? Or very large?

No! It should be...

JUST RIGHT!

Dad steps up to do the carving. Carefully he slices the stem end off. Baby is ready for this next and very important job.

"THE INSIDES!"

It's a gloriously messy task, but Baby, dressed for the job in a dapper diaper, has a blast scooping out the lovely, gooey insides of the pumpkin. What fun!

But now it's time for a big decision. What kind of face shall Baby's Jack o'Lantern have! Dad shows the choices: Mad? Goofy? Fangful? Snoozy? Maybe even a Halloween Kitty-Kat?

Baby selects a face with a great big grin. A grinning Jack o' Lantern is just the thing!

Now it's Mom's job to help come up with a costume. Baby helps her go through the trunk, first trying on some Groucho glasses with mustache and shaggy eyebrows! So giggly! But it's so hard to choose. Vampire fangs look like fun. Should he perhaps give a pirate's patch a try-on or a tutu a twirl? What about a whiskery black cat?

But finally he settles on a classic. Baby grabs a ghost costume that covers him--all but his little bare tootsies. Now it's time to take a look in the mirror. He's so spooky he scares himself!

W-W-W-WHAT'S THAT?

ME?

But all these joyful preparations are just preface to the big event, as Ghost Baby trots up the steps next door to ring his first doorbell!

Ding Dong! A WITCH with a big bowl opens the door! Gulp! But, hey, the witchy woman scoops up a big handful of candy and drops it into his little plastic pumpkin! Wowsie!

It's Hurray For Halloween! in Leslie Petricelli's adorable little board book, Boo! (Leslie Patricelli Board Books) (Candlewick Press), in which a young mom and dad experience the fun of their little one's first Halloween outing. Petricelli's Baby, with his own jolly Jack o' Lantern grin, is undeniably too cute for words, and this tale of his first venture out on Halloween is perfect for doting grandparents or aunts, uncles, and cousins to drop in their favorite baby's trick or treat pumpkin.

Leslie Petricelli's other board books for the very young include Fa La La (Leslie Patricelli board books) Fa La La (Leslie Patricelli board books), Yummy Yucky (Leslie Patricelli board books), and Potty. (Leslie Patricelli board books).