Monster Anxiety! Bad Kitty Scaredy Cat by Nick Bruel

Back in her first summer, when Bad Kitty was a kitten, she was audacious... brave...courageous... dauntless, even... fearless.. and kittenishly loopy, and muddled (but never mind those lapses). She was one tough kitty, a take-on-the-world kitty. Until... HALLOWEEN. It began with the doorbell

Ding Dong! Out of the darkness and into her doorway appeared the most horrible and frightening creatures Kitty had ever seen! TRICK OR TREAT! She saw... an Awful Alien, a Bizarre Bigfoot and a Creepy Clown....

On and on they came out of the night--ectoplasms, Frankensteins, even Uncle Murray borrowing candy, a parade of horrors, right down to a yeti and a zombie, made even more horrible by their relentlessly abnormal alphabetical order Bad Kitty freaked out! Gone was the carefree, casual, ever plucky Kitty!

She was a very, very scared, SCARED, SCARED little kitty.

Is the Bold and Brazen Bad Kitty gone forever? Or will Bad Kitty rally to Clobber the Clown, Flatten the Frankenstein, Maul the Mummy, and Whack the Werewolf? What do you think? Uncle Murray the Moocher hasn't got a chance in Nick Bruel's Bad Kitty Scaredy-Cat (Roaring Brook, 2019). Halloween hath no horrors compared to a Reconstituted Bad Kitty in which author-illustrator Bruel returns to the alliterative, alphabetizing wordplay wizardry born back in 2013 in his first best-selling picture book, Bad Kitty, There are many lovely and lovable kitty cats in literature, but only one Bad Kitty! Says Kirkus Reviews, "An origin story―-and alphabet practice and vocabulary stretcher―-for Bad Kitty's fans."

Cool Ghoul! Ghoulia by Barbara Cantini

MAKING FRIENDS CAN BE SCARY.

And being a zombie doesn't help. A bit lonely, Ghoulia lives in Crumbling Manor with her Aunt Departed, her dog Tragedy, her Uncle Misfortune (unfortunately inconvenienced by being a severed head), and her Grandad Coffin, a ghost.

Ghoulia is warned not to let the village children see her, for fear that their parents might drive them from their home. But Ghoulia can't help want to play with the others

Still, being deathly pale with purple shadows under her eyes and detachable limbs, Ghoulia is pretty sure the neighborhood kids will guess that she is a zombie, so she watches secretly. But one day she overhears the kids excitedly talking about something called trick-or-treating, and the scary costumes--ghosts, vampires, witches-- they are planning to wear for Halloween. Ghoulia has an idea:

"Dressed up as a monster, I can join in the fun!"

So, as her zombie-self, Ghoulia sneaks out of Crumbling Manor, carrying Uncle Misfortune's head as a trick-or-treat bag and bravely introduces herself to a group of kids dressed as a werewolf, a ghost, a witch, a vampire and a zombie, and follows them through the village, collecting goodies. The kids begin to boast about how scary they are, and Ghoulia can't resist trying to impress her new friends.

She tossed her head in her hand, spun it around, and put it back on!

"You're a real Zombie!" a boy shrieked.

Ghoulia has clearly blown her cover, but her new friends are thrilled. Together they form the Secret Monster Society Club, swearing to remain mum to protect the identity of their new friend.

If Ghoulia could have, she would have blushed!

Barbara Cantini's first book,Ghoulia (Book 1) (Amulet Books), joins a long list of uncanny picture book characters of the monster persuasion, from Caspar the Friendly Ghost to Kristyn Crow's Zombelina and Anne Marie Pace's Vampirina Ballerina (Vampirina (1). Share this one along with Cantini's Ghoulia sequels, Ghoulia and the Mysterious Visitor (Book 2) and Ghoulia and the Ghost with No Name (Book 3). "Cantini’s detailed full-color drawings ramp up the comedy on every page with labels and asides, including a page from Ghoulia’s Halloween-prep journal. This well-paced series opener will work well as both a read-aloud and a humorous choice for newly independent readers," reports Publishers Weekly.

Sweetie Pie: You're My Little Pumpkin Pie by Nicola Edwards and Natalie Marshall

What's round and sweet?

Babies and pumpkin pies!

YOU ARE MY BABY BOO!

Filled with icons of the autumn season--black kitties and baby bats, cute little ghosties and chubby pumpkins, sweets for the sweet--Nicola Edwards and Natalie Marshall's top-selling little holiday board book, with its soft tactile cover, die-cut peek-a-boo pages, and sweet rhymes to charm the youngest little readers, You're My Little Pumpkin Pie (Silver Dollar Books, 2018) is just the treat, with no tricks, for a first toy-and-movable book for the spooky season.

Cheery rhymes and charming illustrations celebrate the fun of the season!

NO TRICK! YOU'RE SUCH A TREAT!

Little Spooky Stuff! Where's the Witch? by Ingela P. Arrhenius

Let's look for all the Halloween spooks!

The very youngest little book lovers now have a Halloween board book just for them. Inside on each double page spread there's a Halloween character hiding under an easy felt lift-the-flap just waiting for little fingers to view the big reveal.

Where is that SKELETON? Oh, lift the flap and.... there's one!

There is a SPIDER, inspecting a pumpkin with possibilities!

There is a VAMPIRE, complete with matching black sarcophagus for napping!

Is there a WITCH! Lift the flap to see her fly in front of the moon!

But where are YOU? I dare you to lift that curtain and see!

And there, behind the soft flap, is a mirror and ... Who is that looking back? Who's that you see?

It's YOU, in Angela P. Arrhenius' little toy-and-movable board book just right for the youngest Halloween-goers, Where's the Witch? (Nosy Crow Books, 2019). There's a little vocabulary lesson built into this first book, in which the usual suspects of the holiday are cute comic characters from the spooky season in this small, easy-for-small-fingers fun first Halloween book.

Among the several other beginner board books by Ingela P. Arrhenius are Where's the Duck? and Where's the Unicorn?

Spooky Spoof! Mother Ghost by Rachel Kolar

WEE WILLIE WEREWOLF RUNS THROUGH THE TOWN
AND WITH A HOWL HE CRIES,
"ARE ALL THE MONSTERS IN THEIR BEDS?
THE SUN'S ABOUT TO RISE!"

Poor Mother Goose! Her venerable rhymes and tales are so familiar, making them fair game for parody, and Rachel Kolar's enticing Mother Ghost: Nursery Rhymes for Little Monsters (Sleeping Bear Press, 2018) has a holiday blast spoofing those famous verses with a Halloween twist.

Artist Roland Garrigue's rococo style and black and purple palette make the most of the Halloween tropes--bare, leafless trees provide perches for ghosties, and a zombie-esque Mary Quite Contrary sits on a tombstone eating worms--and that spider for dessert.

Old Mother Hubbard goes to her cupboard for a dog bone, only to have a skeleton claim it for one of his own. A spooky bat is the stand-in for the homey Mrs. Goose, and instead of a little lamb, her Mary has a pet ghost, white as a cloud, who follows her everywhere wearing his shroud. And as for that other nursery rhyme Mary....

MARY, MARY, TALL AND SCARY,
HOW DOES YOUR GRAVEYARD GROW?
WITH BURIED BONES AND CARVED GRAY STONES,
AND LITTLE GHOSTS ALL IN A ROW!

All of Kolar's nursery characters are decked out as familiar Halloween characters as the diddle-diddle cat fiddles for a ghoul, while Little Boy Drac blows his horn in this seasonal spoof of an old favorite collection that most kids will find rhyming, irresistible chuckle-bait. A first choice for children's holiday library collections and a sure-fire funny read-aloud.

Baby Spook Book! Peek-A-Booooo! by Sandra Magsamen

It's a treat you don't eat!

The littlest among us can have a sweet Halloween treat for the spooky season, too. Sandra Mangamen's latest baby-and toddler board book,
Peek-a-Boooo! (Heart-felt Books) (Scholastic Press, 2019) begins with a question about what the tot can "be" for Halloween---a monkey? a honey bunny? an astronaut who flies in the sky?

Beginning with its soft and touchable die-cut Jack o' Lantern on the cover, this little toy-and-movable creation is both a book and a toy. Little ones can reach right through the cover, lift the soft felt flap on the facing page, and see, not just a bunny or a bee, but --themselves in the hidden mirror.  Based on the favorite interactive game of babies for millennia, this small book is a fine introduction to books and the holiday.

Picking at the Patch! Pick A Pumpkin by Patricia Toht

PICK A PUMPKIN FROM THE PATCH.

TALL AND LEAN,
SHORT OR FAT

VIVID ORANGE,
GHOSTLY WHITE

OR SPECKLED GREEN MIGHT BE JUST RIGHT.

It's a family expedition to the local patch, a rare treat in these days, when perforce most pumpkins come from a store, a unique chance to see those amazing plants still growing in the autumn sunlight in all their variety! How do you choose the best one for your family from so much pumpkin plentitude?

And then--you make your pick... and get to actually PICK it!

Back home,  add a friend or two to your crew! There's another big decision to be made.   What sort of face shall your pumpkin head have?

Eyes that are round? Spooky! Eyes that are half-moons? Goofy! Triangular eyes? Upside... or down...or sideways? Merry... or scary! Slitty Eyes? Frightful! So many choices!

And when you're done with the carving and the purple twilight grows nigh, it's SHOW TIME for your pumpkin! Get everyone in on the big reveal!

STRIKE A MATCH.
THE WICK WILL CATCH.

SEE THE GLOW OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR.
IT'S A PUMPKIN... NO MORE!

It's a lucky bunch of kids who get to go from picking a pumpkin in the patch to proudly leaving their creation to guard the door while they sally forth, merry or scary, and see how their neighbors' Jack o' lanterns are carved. Even big city kids can have a vicarious experience of the process from picking to going public with your own pumpkin in Patricia Thot's piquantly rhymed do-it-yourself picture book, Pick a Pumpkin (Candlewick Press, 2019).  Illustrator Jarvis perfectly portrays the entire process from patch to Jack, and this one is great for reading aloud or for browsing by both readers and pre-readers alike. Exults Kirkus Reviews "The nearly flawless rhythm of the text is a pleasure to read and will likely become a favorite... Enchanting!"

And.. if Halloween comes, can Christmas be far around the corner? Author Toht's and artist Jarvis' earlier hands-on Christmas tree forest tale is Pick a Pine Tree!

Or for a purely urban patchless pumpkin tale, share this one with Lucy Cumming's best-selling Stumpkin. (Read my review here.)

And for more pumpkin lore, pair this one with Gail Gibbons' charming historical look at the all-American pumpkin--from feeding the Pilgrims to Halloween's favorite emblem, Thanksgiving's pumpkin pie, or pumpkin spiced everything--The Pumpkin Book.

Carving Contest! Peppa's Giant Pumpkin by Neville Astby

TODAY IS HALLOWEEN!

The children are having a competition.

Everyone has their pumpkins ready to decorate.

And of course Peppa Pig is keen to have the best Jack o' Lantern in her class. The whole family cooperates to help her with the competition.

Peppa's grandparents have done their part. Grandpa Pig has been growing a huge pumpkin. In fact, it's still growing in his pumpkin patch.

It's the biggest pumpkin in the world!

Mom and Dad and little George are there to join in the process of carving the big pumpkin into an outstanding Jack O' LANTERN.

Only then do they realize that they have NO way to fit this JACK into their car!

But Grampa Pig and his friend Mrs. Rabbit manage to rescue the situation, and with Mrs. Rabbit at the controls of her helicopter, they deliver Peppa's entry by sky crane! As the children cheer, the giant pumpkin arrives just in time for the judging, in Neville Astby's shaped board book, Peppa's Giant Pumpkin (Peppa Pig) (Scholastic Books, 2019), sure to please youngsters just getting into the fun of converting pumpkins to Jack o' Lanterns.

Monsters Come Out Tonight! by Frederick Glaser

THE FULL MOON SHIMMERS IN THE SKY.

PUMPKINS GLOW AND BLACK BATS FLY.

There's no telling what characters may appear at your door on Halloween.

There might be a skeleton or someone who looks like Dracula!

Or...

MOONBEAMS THAT MAKE YOU CHANGE AND GROW

SPROUTING HAIR FROM HEAD OR TOE...!

Could that be a werewolf?

Warty witches fly down from the sky. Frankie Frankenstein lumbers by and Mumbly Mummy in winding wrappings wanders up to ring the bell.

All the spooky denizens are likely to be in sight on Halloween night, and any one of them might be in store when you open that door!

But Frederick Glaser's new toy-and-movable board book, Monsters Come Out Tonight! (Abrams Appleseed Books, 2019), filled with clever rhyming couplets and the comic illustrations of noted artist Edward Miller, offers a cheery preview to all the cliche' scary characters who may appear on Halloween night, providing the youngest holiday celebrants an anxiety-reducing introduction to ghosties and goblins and things that go bump (or ring the doorbell) in the night. With easy flaps for young fingers, little ones can open the "door" to all those costumed critters, and the final four-page gatefold opens wide to give kids a chance to put on their costumes and join in the Monster Ball with them all.

LIFT THE FLAPS AND LET THE FUN BEGIN!

Bah, Humbug! The Halloween Tree by Susan Montanari

Christmas is coming, and the little evergreens on the tree lot are all a-twitter, dreaming of twinkling lights, tinsel, and bright stars on their tops and trying to hold their little trunks as straight as they can.

All but one of them, that is.

One little tree is clearly the Grinch of the bunch.

"I DON'T WANT TO BE A CHRISTMAS TREE.

I DON'T LIKE LIGHTS.

I DON'T LIKE DECORATIONS, AND I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE."

A curmudgeonly Christmas tree? How can that be? He's such a malcontent that he sheds his needles constantly and grows more crooked every day. It's no surprise that when the last late tree shoppers pick over the remaining trees on Christmas Eve, he's the last one left.

As time passes, the town moves closer and closer. The tree lot is sold, and soon the Scrooge-y tree finds himself in the middle of a new subdivision. The tree is not happy with his new neighbors.

"I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE!" he grumbled.

The tree has grown taller, but more twisted and gnarly. Still, the neighborhood children find its knotty trunk easy to climb and soon it becomes one of their favorite places to play.

"IT'S A PIRATE SHIP! called Sarah.

And so it is. Sometimes the tree is their fort, and sometimes it's a space ship or even a dreadful dragon!

And when the weather grows colder, the grumpy tree discovers that he's lonely alone, without the children playing on his limbs. And when their dad complains about the spooky-looking tree and threatens to cut it down, the kids have other ideas.

"I KNOW WHAT TO DO! said Sam

And soon the twisted tree is decorated with wispy spider webs, little Jack o' lantern lights, a part-time black cat, and little hanging spiders. The neighbors admire it, and the cranky tree gets a new name--

THE TRICK-OR-TREE!

In a humorous turn-the-tables takeoff on Hans Christian Andersen's classic The Little Fir Tree,  author Susan Montanari's and artist Teresa Martinez's latest The Halloween Tree (Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky, 2019), shows that, however unsightly, there's a time and place for every tree. Kids will love this tale of a creatively re-purposed tree, and may even have some Halloween fun decorating their own least lovely tree.

Lost Sock? There's a Witch in My Dryer by Linda Lee Cross

There was a little girl who would sit quietly on the floor and watch her mother tend the laundry.

"The dryer never loses anything!" she said.

But where do those missing socks go? And the little girl also wonders what makes those strange metallic clangs and clickety sounds coming from the dryer. Her mother says they were just lost pennies and nickles stuck in the dryer, but the girl isn't too sure about that. She asked why she never sees any nickels and pennies when she opens the dryer door. Could there be something like a witch hiding there?

"I remember when I was a little girl I would ask your grandmother the same questions," her mom replies.

And when Grandmother comes for a visit, the little girl tells her about the mysterious sounds, and her grandmother smiles and pulls an old flashlight out of her bag.

"This magic flashlight will only work for those who truly do believe."

That night the little girl can hardly wait. When all is quiet, she turns on the flashlight and tiptoes downstairs to the dryer.

There IS a witch in there, a nice witch all dressed for Halloween, and the little girl notices that she is wearing one of those missing red-and-white striped socks, in Linda Lee Cross's There's a Witch in My Dryer (iUniverse, 2018). Borrowing from the old house elf stories of folklore, author Cross has a modern story with her little trickster hiding, not in a cabinet or pot, but in the dryer. Youngsters MAY be inspired to investigate those strange sounds in their own dryers!

Fright Night Sleuth! Trick or Treat? Who's That Hiding in the Dark by John Townsend

You'll never guess who I might be.
I live in a spooky old house...

Our narrator is a little cagey about what he is--although, for the sake of a rhyme, he says he's not...

... a mouse!

Yes, dear reader, you are going to have to go into that scary house, through that spooky door, through those thick and creepy cobwebs, and see who's hanging around inside, besides that big black spider.

Oh, you might spot a rat, but he's not running from a big black cat either. But who really resides in this spooky place? There's one more clue, but it's up to you.

My home is cold and damp and dark...

Wait... ! don't go down those stairs to the cellar... and whatever you do, don't open that...

There are the usual suspects for a haunted house behind every flap, in John Townsend's Who's That Hiding in the Dark? (Scribblers, 2018), a virtual walk-through of a visit to the neighborhood haunted house, and a good way to introduce the creepy candy customers who will present themselves at your own door on Halloween. Artist Fermin Solis provides the not-so-creepy comic versions of the usual Fright Time characters in this rhyming, just-in-time for the scary season toy-and-movable book.

Pumpkin Plenty! It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse! by Laura Numberoff

SEVEN PUMPKINS!

It's a tall order for a small mouse to decorate seven pumpkins, but this mousekin has plenty of ideas for each one.

On one big pumpkin he paints the iconic happy face.

One gets a very sad face.

Then he paints one with a goofy face, followed by one exclaiming in surprise! Next...

Mouse is on a roll--until he notices something strange!

ONE IS MISSING!

Mouse looks around! What's that?!? That's a mean and frightening Jack O'Lantern. Mouse never painted anything that scary! Where did that one come from?

Could Dog be the culprit? His giggle is suspicious.

Turning pumpkins into Jack o' Lanterns is half the fun of Halloween, in It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse! (If You Give...) (Balzer and Bray), and Mouse finally finishes off his duties with the friendliest Jack in the pumpkin patch in author Laura Numeroff's and artist Felicia Bond's Halloween story for fans of the boy and mouse featured in their best-selling series begun with If You Give A Mouse A Cookie. This one may help tots about to experience their first pumpkin-decorating fun get some ideas about which pumpkin face they want to choose.

For more pumpkin-carving tot-time fun, share this one with Leslie Petrocelli's adorable Boo! (Leslie Patricelli board books) (see review here).

Ghoulish Grads! Fright School by Janet Lawler

A darkening school on an autumn night
With moonlight streaming in,
Echoes with a midnight bell
For classes to begin.

Who goes to school at midnight?

It's a ghoul school, so monsters matriculate happily where the curriculum instructs them on how to haunt on Halloween.

In some ways it's like a regular school. Skeletons skateboard to class. Young bats with braces on their fangs wear Gothic black, Dracula tries to sleep through class, and ghosts try to disappear into the woodwork when they can't find their homework.

Picky eaters groan, "Our apples don't taste rotten."

The devilish janitor grumbles at werewolves who don't wipe their paws, and the school nurse is always running out of gauze for the mummies.

But now everything is focused toward graduation on Halloween, of course. Clutching diplomas, the new grads toss their caps and head out into the night because it is time to try to terrify this year's trick-or-treaters--if they dare!

"WE DO FRIGHT RIGHT!" is the school motto in Janet Lawler's spoof of a spook academy in her new Fright School (Albert Whitman, 2018), illustrated with humorous take-offs of the school scene with whimsical skill by Chiara Galletti. Share this one with Lola Schaeffer's equally spooktacular spoof, Frankie Stein Starts School (see review here).

Witches, Ghosts, and Bats--Oh, My! BOO! Touch and Feel Alphaprints by Roger Priddy et al

WITCHES' FROGS, GREEN AS GOO!

What do they do? Do they croak and wind up in the witches' brew?

No! They just say....

BOO!

Blue monsters and lavender ghosts join flapping bats at a spooky boogaloo, in Roger Priddy's latest rhyming tactile outing for the scary season for tots, Alphaprints: Boo!: Touch and Feel (St. Martin's Press, 2018) Touch and feel fingerprints form parts of all these spooky folks, led by an adorable little googly-eyed frog in a purple witchy hat in this Halloween book for the very youngest.

Share this one with Baby Touch & Feel: Halloween and Little Bat: Finger Puppet Book. (Little Finger Puppet Board Books)

An Extra Treat: A Tiger Called Tomas by Charlotte Zolotow

Once there was a little boy named Tomas. He was very nice.

But when his family moved to a new house, he took it into his head that the new people might not like him.

So he never left the stoop.

Every day a little girl named Marie played hopscotch alone on the sidewalk, but when his mother urged him to play with her, Tomas said, "Maybe she wouldn't like me."

Tomas stays on his stoop. The lady across the street works in her flowers with her big black cat every day. The cat looks nice, but Tomas is afraid to join them. The same is true for a tall, sad-looking boy named Paul, and a man who walks his big black poodle up and down the street. The dog looks at Paul like he wants to play, but Tomas is stuck on his stoop.

But the day before Halloween, Tomas' mother brings him an orange and black tiger costume and mask. Tomas tries them on, admiring his long striped tail. He is pleased.

"No one will know me when I go trick-or-treating!" he thought.

But when Tomas the Tiger rings the bell at the house of the lady with the black cat, she says,

"Well, Hello! Happy Halloween, Tomas!"

She invites him to come over and play with her cat some time.

"He gets lonely," the lady said.

"So do I," said Tomas.

Tomas checks his mask to see if it is indeed still covering his face. It is. But Tall Paul knows who he is, and the man with the poodle invites him along on his daily walks.

Even a little witch with a broom knows his name and invites him over for a game of hopscotch.

It looks like Tomas' stoop is going to be empty on the day after Halloween, in the brand-new, revised edition of noted children's author Charlotte Zolotow's classic Halloween hit, A Tiger Called Tomás (Soucebooks/Jabberwocky, 2018). With an introduction by Zolotow's daughter Crescent Dragonwagon, this edition is the third revision of Zolotow's understated but poignant story of a lonely boy whose shyness keeps him from making new friends.

Artist Marta Miguens' new illustrations are as vivid as those in the 2003 edition and brighter than the original drawings in the 1963 edition, making this one a great addition to the story of how this timid doubting Thomas finds new friends. "A must-read for introverted kids, it's a worthy update to the 1963 original," Kirkus Reviews says.

A Time to Shine: Stumpkin by Lucy Ruth Cummins

It was a few days before Halloween.

A storekeeper places some pumpkins on the shelf outside his shop, ten bright orange pumpkins and one big, bumpy-lumpy yellow winter squash.

The pumpkins are not all alike. One is tall and thin; one is small and squat. Some tip to the right; some lean to the left. But all have perky green stems, the perfect handle for the shopper--and all hope to become Jack o' Lanterns, glowing from one of windows on the street. All but one.

He was as big as a basketball--and twice as round. Orange as an orange!

He was perfect in every way from every angle. But--he had no stem.

Poor little stemless pumpkin with just a stump.

But Stem-Schmem! Little Stumpkin still has hopes. Surely there must be a family that prefers a stemless pumpkin. But the days go by. Children point to the pumpkin they want and leave happy. Every night another window on the street has a Jack o' Lantern glowing from an upstairs windowsill. Still Stumpkin has hope. Plenty of empty windows remain on the street.

But then there are no other pumpkins left on the shelf. And when someone buys the bumpy misshapen squash, Stumpkin despairs.

"The GOURD?" thought Stumpkin. "I guess that's that!"

But the shopkeeper hasn't forgotten Stumpkin, in Lucy Ruth Cummins' just-in-time for Halloween story, Stumpkin (Atheneum Books, 2018), as a perfect Jack o' Lantern, Stumpkin, helps light the night. Author-illustrator's Cummins' illustrations follow the Halloween color scheme, with human figures shown in black silhouettes set against the bright orange of the pumpkins, giving the pages an an engaging glow. A perfect story for just before a visit to the pumpkin patch, this is a gentle story with pathos balanced with humor, combined to show that all pumpkins should get their time to shine. The greater theme, of course, is that there is value in all things, the imperfect as well as the perfect, if we have eyes to see it.

For younger kids, pair this one before Halloween with Margery Cuyler's The Bumpy Little Pumpkin.

Counting Down to Party Time! Five Little Ninjalinos: A Halloween Story by Tina Galto

Five little ninjalinos strolled under the full moon.

They were hoping that their leader would be arriving soon.

Where can Night Ninja be? He was last seen trying to find a cool Halloween costume. What's with that?

One little ninjalino sees Gekko. One spots Owlette soaring through the air. Should they follow them? The third little ninjalino moans....

"Oh, That's just too far!"

Another little ninjalino tries to buck up his crew. There's no sign of Catboy! What's the matter with you?

Oh, No! There he is! The Five Little Ninjalinos go into defensive formation. It's fight or flight!

But no, it's neither one. There's just some decorating to be done!

SURPRISE!

There's a Halloween party about to get underway, and the PJ Masks want the ninjalinos to stay.

It's time to bury the nunchuks and celebrate Halloween together, with Tina Galto's ninja-themed version of the familiar holiday song in Five Little Ninjalinos: A Halloween Story (PJ Masks) (Simon Spotlight, 2018).  With the characters from the preschool program, PJMasks, it's time to count down with their sometime foes and party down just in time to share the celebration. Everyone is already wearing a mask, so let the fun begin. Holiday fun for PJMasks' many fans!