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A Halloween version of The Twelve Days of Christmas, featuring such seasonal gifts as bats, goblins, spiders, worms, and ghosts.

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School Library Journal Review

PreS-Gr 2-Greene's holiday rhyme loosely based on "The 12 Days of Christmas" has been given sprightly new illustrations. A green ghoul is wooed by a similarly colored male that first offers her "a vulture in a dead tree." And so the courting continues on each double-page spread. Kids will have fun counting the different offerings, from "two hissing cats" and "three fat toads" to "six owls a-screeching" and "ten goblins gobbling." Then, on the 11th day, they can sort out the confusion that suddenly erupts from the mass of flying objects in the crowded sky. The tables are turned on the 13th day, when the narrator now invites the "good friend" to tea, and-with mounting suspense-gives "A real, live-." Readers are asked to guess what the 13 final presents might be. This ending will require adult explanation, as young readers may not understand their role in the story. Raglin's art brings the text to life through creepy pen-and-ink drawings that are drawn in muted color against a dull, but multi-toned background, a color scheme that suits the story. Picture books on this subject abound, but the idea of the 13 days gives this book a unique twist.-Elizabeth Maggio, Palos Verdes Library District, Rolling Hills Estates, CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Ages 4^-8. The traditional Christmas courtship tale hits the graveyard in this funny Halloween spin-off. A dapper ghoul tries to woo his "good friend" (no mention of true love here) with a cumulative succession of humorous, creepy gifts: a vulture in a dead tree, hissing cats, fat toads, cooked worms, and more until a final wide-open question leaves readers to "guess what" the suitor finally receives after all these offerings. The list offers plenty of laughs, but it's the illustrations that are the real draw here. In pen, ink, and watercolors, Raglin juxtaposes costumed elegance with inspired, grotesque details that kids will find irresistible--the female ghoul's elegant dress and fangs; the slimy toads in doily bonnets--and children will have fun finding the characters transformed in each new spread: one page shows the "four giggling ghosts" playing cards, for example, while on a following page, they become the laundry on the line. For kids who find open endings more fun than frustrating, this offers a surefire hit for Halloween story hours. --Gillian Engberg