Halloween hustle

Title:

Halloween hustle

Author:

Gunnufson, Charlotte, author.

Atteberry, Kevan, illustrator.

ISBN:

9781477817230

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Abstract:

In the dark, a funky beat. Something white with bony feet. Skeleton dancing up the street, Doing the Halloween Hustle. Skeleton is dancing his way to a Halloween party--but as he grooves across town, he keeps stumbling, tumbling, and falling apart! Can Skeleton stay in one piece long enough to make it to the party?

Subject:

Skeleton -- Juvenile fiction.

Halloween -- Juvenile fiction.

Dance -- Juvenile fiction.

Stories in rhyme -- Juvenile fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Stories in rhyme.

Genre:

Stories in rhyme -- Juvenile fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Stories in rhyme.

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In the dark, a funky beat. / Something white with bony feet. / Skeleton dancing up the street, / Doing the Halloween Hustle.Skeleton is dancing his way to a Halloween party--but as he grooves across town, he keeps stumbling, tumbling, and falling apart! Can Skeleton stay in one piece long enough to make it to the party? Does he have a shot at winning the Halloween Hustle dance contest?

Reviews (1)

School Library Journal Review

PreS-Gr 1-This toe-tapping, bone-cracking, jive-happening book is a great way to celebrate Halloween and/or dancing. Gunnufson uses a finger-snapping rhyme as she relates a skeleton's journey (along with his smiling monster friends) from home via bus to shops and then line dancing his way to a big Halloween party to participate in a dance contest. Nothing stops him from doing the Halloween Hustle, even the fact that three times his "Bones scatter!/What a clatter!/Spine is broken like a ladder!" Like a trooper, Skeleton uses rubber bands then tape and twine to keep himself together, until a girl skeleton he meets at the party suggests a bottle of superstrong glue."You're fixed forever! You're just like new!/Hey, I'd like to dance with you!" Atteberry's lively illustrations depict a happy, dancing Skeleton surrounded by his equally delightful monster friends. The only ick factor is the dancing zombie with an eye dangling from its socket (it's his detached foot that trips up Skeleton one final time). It's the most non-scary eye dangle ever, but still-ewww. Certain youngsters will love it! This fun-to-read dance of words is sure to be popular at storytime and at home.-Catherine Callegari, Gay-Kimball Library, Troy, NH (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.