The House That Jack Haunted

Pamela Conn Beall, Susan Hagen Nipp. Price Stern Sloan, $4.99 (18pp) ISBN 978-0-8431-0276-5

Die-cuts jazz up the covers of two board books and give them unique shapes as well, as in the house-shaped The House that Jack Haunted! by Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp, illus. by Charles Reasoner, which presents a Halloween spin on the poem ""The House that Jack Built."" Three pairs of eyes peer out of die-cut holes on the cover of Who's There on Halloween?, by the same team; within, rhyming riddles feature smiling skeletons, bats and witches.

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