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"Made to be read aloud!" --Publishers Weekly
Perfect for spooky story times and campfire tales, A Teeny Tiny Halloween fits with every family's autumnal traditions! Written to be shared aloud and easy for young children to join in on the fun, this sweet little story of a teeny tiny woman's not so teeny tiny trouble--a buried house with no one to help dig her out!--is sure to be a holiday favorite.
Author Notes
Lauren L. Wohl combines two of her favorite things in A Teeny Tiny Halloween: her love of children's books with the mix of just-a-little-scary and a lot of fun at Halloween. Lauren's career has been in children's book publishing. She has a degree in Library Science and has been a school librarian in the New York City public school system, and was the director of James Patterson's ReadKiddoRead program. Lauren now consults to several children's publishers and mentors in the MFA program at Simmons College. A native New Yorker, Lauren lives with her husband in Miami Beach, Florida, and Lenox, Massachusetts.
Henry Cole was a beloved elementary science and math teacher for many years before turning to the world of children's publishing. Since then, he has helped create over 120 books for children, including Jack's Garden, A Nest for Celeste, Big Bug, The Somewhat True Adventures of Sammy Shine, Brambleheart, Spot, the Cat, Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad, And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, and the Little Bo books written by Julie Andrews Edwards. Between working on books and traveling the country speaking to school audiences, he spends his time in his home state of Virginia.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 2-Every year the autumn leaves completely cover up the "teeny tiny woman's teeny tiny house." And so begins the familiar folktale that takes on a modern dimension designed by Wohl and Cole. With a palette of browns, reds, and yellows, the illustrations set the atmosphere with a multitude of leaves blanketing the landscape, while the three children dressed in their Halloween costumes (witch, cat, and ghost) add to the playfulness of the holiday season. As an aid to storytellers, the font size of the text is small for a tiny voice and increases in size for a louder voice. There is a twist on this tale: despite her dilemma, the homeowner decides to bake cookies. The children smell the delicious aroma and are resourceful enough to dig out her house. The reward is cookies for all. VERDICT This fun and engaging Halloween book is ripe for audience participation at the conclusion.-Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Wohl (The Eighth Menorah) and Cole (Spot, the Cat) team up for a lightly spooky story about a "teeny tiny woman who lives in a teeny tiny house in a very big forest." When falling leaves bury the woman's house, she tries to summon help by making noise and, eventually, baking "teeny tiny chocolate chip cookies" that attract the attention of three trick-or-treating kids. Working in an autumnal palette of reds, golds, oranges, and browns, Cole conjures up a cozy forest setting with just a hint of danger in the woman's predicament. Wohl's warm, repeating language (complete with "teeny tiny" adjustments in font size) is made to be read aloud, though the story's logic falters toward the end. The house turns out to be more child-size than, say, mouse-size, so it's unclear why the woman-who's larger than the children that rescue her-couldn't just dig herself out. Ages 3-7. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
A new teeny tiny woman tale joins the Halloween shelf.Nestled in a teeny tiny house in a big forest lives a teeny tiny woman. (You get the pointfor youngsters learning to tell a tale aloud, the repetitionand the changing font that indicates volumeis valuable, but adults may need a teeny tiny bit more time to throw themselves into the fun.) Every fall the diminutive woman has a problem: the autumn leaves bury her cottage. She cries out, Oh, who will save me? but though each time she cries a little louder than the last, its still not enough to attract attention. Tapping the windows and banging pots and pans also fails. Her last idea is one that will seem odd: baking cookies. But who can ignore that delicious aroma? Not the children dressed as a cat, a witch, and a ghost who are walking through the forest. The three friends dig through the leaves to uncover the source. One trick-or-treat! later, they are enjoying gooey cookies at the table together. While the womans solution is a clever one, it will also likely have parents reminding their children not to enter peoples houses on Halloween. Coles illustrations are full of the colors of the season. The woman, the boy ghost, and the girl witch are white; the girl catan orange tabbyis black. In a nice change from more traditional teeny tiny woman tales, this books protagonist is no crone but a fashionably dressed woman of indeterminate age. Rates high in creative problem-solving and oral storytelling but low in Halloween safety. (Picture book. 4-7) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Living in the middle of a forest full of huge trees is a little house occupied by a small lady with a gigantic problem her house is about to be buried by leaves. She calls out, but her voice is teeny tiny and no one hears. Even banging her pots and pans and cookie sheets together doesn't do the trick. But all those cooking implements give her an idea: who can resist the aroma of baking cookies? There's no smell too small for a gang of trick-or-treaters to notice, and when they discover the small-house-sized pile of leaves, they start digging until they find the door and receive the perfect Halloween treat. Wohl's singsongy text presses the phrase teeny tiny to its limit, but the repetition might be a hit with group storytimes. Cole's warm illustrations in a seasonally rusty palette, full of tawny oak leaves and looming tree trunks, nicely evoke both the coziness of the woman's little house and the vague but gentle eeriness of the woods. A fine choice for a Halloween read-aloud.--Hunter, Sarah Copyright 2016 Booklist