cover image The Halloween House

The Halloween House

Erica Silverman. Farrar Straus Giroux, $4.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-374-42871-6

In a riff on the counting song ""Over in the Meadow,"" two jailbirds are spooked by bats, witches and other ghoulish characters in a haunted mansion. ""A playful rhyming book,"" said PW. Ages 3-up. (Sept.)