Award-winning picture book is now an award-winning animated short film featuring narration by Mister Sam Shearon.
Alistair Gray loves Halloween.
When Alistair Gray attends his school Halloween carnival, he is disappointed to see his favorite night of the year has turned more silly than scary—all treats and no tricks.
But when he wanders alone into the dark the night before Hallow's Eve, Alistair meets a spooky new friend that teaches him the holiday is about fun and fright...and that there's more than one way to celebrate Halloween.
Lindy Miller Ryan is an award-winning author/editor, short film director, and professor at Rutgers University. Prior to her career in academia, Ryan was the co-founder of Radiant Advisors, where she led the company's research and data enablement practice for clients that included 21st Century Fox Films, Warner Bros., and Disney. She is the founder of Black Spot Books, a small press with a mission to amplify the voices of women in horror as well as a dedicated book review at Rue Morgue. Ryan previously served on the Board of Directors for IBPA and is currently co-chair of the Horror Writers Association Publishers Council. She is an active member of the HWA and ITW and was named one of Publishers Weekly's Star Watch Honorees 2020. She has published numerous academic texts as well as writes clean romance novels under the name Lindy Miller, which are being adapted for screen.
My Thoughts
Trick or Treat, Alistair Gray by Lindy Ryan is the perfect book for children for the upcoming Halloween holiday! I am a fan of Halloween, probably my favorite holiday. Full of Autumn colors and enough spookiness, keeping in the theme of Halloween, but also a lesson to be learned. While most of love the dark and gloomy colors of the time enough to make a person's spine tingle with fright, this book does not do that.
Alistair Gray leaves the school carnival, not happy that the carnival doesn't give him the creeps like he was expecting, his walk home he grumbles that Halloween isn't silly, it should be scary!
The story teaches us that Halloween can be spooky but it can also be a lot of fun. This book was very reminiscent of Tim Burton, with the illustrations right on the mark. I think that a child would enjoy this book, of course, having Mom and Dad there to read it with the child, may be kind of spooky, depending on the age, but again, spookiness can be fun!
I loved it, although I think it would have been better to have the print book in my hands the ebook was good too!
I give it 5 stars!
I received a copy of the book for review purposes only.
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