{"product_id":"9781554533022","title":"Black and Bittern Was Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's a band of animated skeletons versus daring children in this rhyming Halloween picture book tale, told in delightful nonsense language. Here the children are \"tyke-tots\" and the adults \"tall-bigs,\" while the skeletons are called \"SKUL-A-MUG-MUGS.\" As the story begins, the SKUL-A-MUG-MUGS descend on a small, quiet town on Halloween night. \"They ring-ruckled round, enclupping the town, with quake-quiver-up and scree-scrackle down.\" The SKUL-A-MUG-MUGS have a plan to keep the children from trick-or-treating. \"We'll brain-frizz tall-bigs.Halloween they'll deep nix. They'll shup-clup insidenasty Noras and Nicks!\" But the children decide to take matters into their own hands. \"Thrickle! and thrackle! Thinder-a-thray!SKUL-A-MUG-MUGS,we'll splook you away!\" What ensues is a fun, spirited fight to the finish, as naturally the children outwit and out-frighten the old SKUL-A-MUG-MUGS so the trick-or-treating can commence once again! In this one-of-a-kind book, award-winning author and children's poet Robert Heidbreder has imagined an empowering story about a chaotic world where the adults are terrified and the children take over to save the day — and the candy, of course. The silly and spooky madness is delightfully illustrated with irresistible artwork by award-winning John Martz. This is sure to be a hands-down favorite as a read-aloud — for all ages — during the Halloween season or anytime fun wordplay is called for. It makes a fabulous language arts introduction to rhyming poetry that will surely inspire children to create their own made-up words and stories. Separately, it can also work for social studies discussions about cultural celebrations such as Halloween that focus on images and tales of the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kids Can Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046872924400,"sku":"9781554533022","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554533022_p0.jpg?v=1763753320","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554533022","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}