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Minerva Louise on Halloween
It?s Halloween and Minerva Louise is as fearless? and clueless?as ever. She investigates the witches, ghosts, and goblins visiting the farm and delights in trick-or-treating for the very first time. Little farmers with pointed hats and very strange farming tools are running around. Folks are handing out the most delicious (candy) corn. The neighbors even compliment Minerva...more
Hardcover, 24 pages
Published
August 20th 2009
by Dutton Juvenile
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Minerva Louise is the chicken equivalent of Amelia Bedelia. You either love her, or she'll drive you crazy. I happen to love Minerva Louise, but I must admit, I wasn't totally enthralled with her new Halloween adventure. It is a nice and gentle Halloween book for the very young that contains no frights to leave them with nightmares. Minerva thinks that decorating with fake tombstones is actually the farmers planting a rock garden and she mistakes children dressed up as ghost, as floating laundry...more
Fun and silly story starring the lovable Minerva, as she experiences the strange sights, sounds and tastes of Halloween for the first time. Our girls thought this was a funny story and I thought it was interesting that Harry Potter made it into the tale. It seemed a bit incongrous though, as I always imagine these stories to be old fashioned (with the first book printed over 20 years ago), not set in the 2000s.
This is the first Minerva Louise book we've read. It was fun--she consistently deduces incorrect conclusions about what's happening on Halloween night. We had a short, good discussion about how things aren't always as they seem to us and how our thinking something is a certain way doesn't mean it is in fact so.
A cute, bird-brained story of Halloween. If read as a straight book, the reader might find it dumb. However, from a young reader's point of view, pointing out all the ways Minerva Louise misunderstands the holiday could be a treat. A nice, secular story for storytime.
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A super cute Halloween book about a chicken. Definitely captures the essence of chickens lol. I really loved this book and would love to read it to my child (when I have one ;). Until then, I'll have to settle on reading it to the chickens...
Minerva Louise, the befuddled chicken, celebrates Halloween by misinterpretting everything she sees in absurdly cute manner. She even joins in on the trick-or-treating using a cupcake wrapper.
This book would be an excellent non-scary Halloween selection for preschoolers and other young readers.
This book would be an excellent non-scary Halloween selection for preschoolers and other young readers.
Oct 12, 2011
Megan
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
preschool-kindergarten
Recommended to Megan by:
Deana R.
Minerva Louise is a chicken who misunderstands a lot of things. Amusing, especially to 4-6 year olds, but not as charming as Amelia Bedelia.
Funny Halloween story from the chicken's point of view... at first I didn't get it, but enjoyed it more as we continued reading.
A charming story about a chicken's perception of Halloween.
themes: chickens, costumes, farms, Halloween, tick-or-treating
themes: chickens, costumes, farms, Halloween, tick-or-treating
Cute Halloween preparation story as observed and narrated by Minerva Louise, a chicken. A definite chuckle for parents.
We LOVE Minerva Louise books and this one is GREAT! We loved seeing Halloween from a chicken's point of view. :)
Adorable and cute, as always. Look for a cameo appearance by Harry Potter in this one.
Good ol' Minerva Louise!
I love Minerva!
Not as cute as some of the other Minerva Louise books, but nice for Halloween.
This series tends to please adults more than kids--a lot of kids under five don't get the jokes--but there's nothing wrong with doing that occasionally in storytime!
a not-scary Halloween read
Feb 10, 2013
Winey Mommy
marked it as to-read
Dec 09, 2012
Andrea Labonte
marked it as to-read
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