My First Halloween Board Book

by Nicola Deschamps

My First Word Books: The complete preschool learning program to develop your child's vocabulary and early literacy skills.

Genres: Halloween, Picture Books, Childrens

36 pages, Board Book

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Sherry Scheline · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great little word book for Halloween 🎃

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Illustrated with great photographs, this board book features children dressed in several of the most common Halloween costumes (witch, vampire, wizard, ghost, pirate, fairy) or variations thereof (a king instead of a princess) and a couple unusual but cute ones (cat, robber, scarecrow, jester), Halloween food, Halloween decorations (paper chains and lanterns), Jack-o'-Lantern faces (spooky, sad, silly, and happy), creepy creatures (bats, crows, toads, snakes, spiders, worms, cockroaches, and beetles), two Halloween activities (bobbing for apples and biting hanging doughnuts -- an activity that might have been invented just for the sake of the photo), masks (skull, lion, monster, and bird), and children holding trick-or-treat bags and buckets.

I had to deduct points for the bizarre Halloween foods. Cut out sugar cookies are definitely a typical Halloween treat as well as decorated cupcakes (although the eyeball designs are somewhat unusual), but the soda pop with gummy worms, the pizzas decorated with faces, and the extremely strange shrunken head sandwiches. Whatever happened to candy corn, carmel apples, pumpkin pie, and apple cider?

[Elizabeth K. · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am giving this a low rating because it didn't appeal to my toddler -- the images didn't seem to hold her interest at all, especially compared to other Halloween board books. I can't quite figure out how to describe it without sounding like I don't want to challenge my daughter or that I think she's a dumb bunny, but it was like the photographs were too conceptual for a 19 month old who is just starting to get the basic idea of Halloween.

However, I will add that I found the photos lovely, and they gave me some great decorating ideas for Halloween. I guess maybe this book would work better if your child is a budding Martha Stewart.

[Ashley · Rating 1 out of 5]

I got this on mine & 29 month old daughter last library trip on Friday.
We read about 4 to 5 books almost every night before bed.
My daughter got overwhelmed with it.
My daughter has some speech delay.
I feel like she was lost with me pointing and saying the words.
I wanted something more simple and didn't point out every detail of a costume to get her excited for Halloween.
Halloween Masks used to scare her.

[jacky · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book covers everything age approperate about Halloween: popular costumes, foods, animals, etc. The Halloween color scheme was great and the photographs were particularly nice in this installment of this series. I would have bought this if Natalie was showing more interest in this series. Maybe next year. This book was part of a seriously impressive Halloween book spread at Kmart.

[raccoon reader · Rating 2 out of 5]

Probably a bit much for Woods, but he had fun trying to eat it :)

[Carina · Rating 3 out of 5]

A gift from Great-Grandma Shirley.

[Jaime · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice little board book for toddlers! A great treat for your child's first Halloween!