Halloween Has Boo!

Harriet Ziefert. Blue Apple Books, $6.95 (16pp) ISBN 978-1-929766-67-3

Holographic foil dresses up the die-cut window in two holiday titles by Harriet Ziefert and Rebecca Doughty. A pumpkin peers out from the cover on Halloween Has Boo! Within, just one silly couplet per spread (""Spiders have spin./ Pumpkins have grin"") accompanies line drawings of cock-eyed characters. A trimmed tree decks the cover of Christmas Has Merry!

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