Scarecrow's Spooky Night

by Susan Hood

These oversized books feature lovable characters in holiday-themed stories.

Genres: Halloween, Holiday

20 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1996

About the author

Susan Hood is the award-winning author of many books for young readers, including Ada's Violin; Lifeboat 12; The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics; Shaking Things Up; Titan and the Wild Boars: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team; and We Are One: How the World Adds Up.

Susan is the recipient of an E. B. White Read-Aloud Picture Book Honor, the Christopher Award, the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, the Golden Kite Award, and the Bank Street Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, given annually for “a distinguished work of nonfiction that serves as an inspiration to young people.”

COMING IN MARCH, 2022!
Susan's newest book is Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis. Co-authored with Anna's (a.k.a. Zhanna's) son Greg Dawson, this biography in verse celebrates the life-saving power of the arts.

Reviews

[Teresa Garrett · Rating 5 out of 5]

A scarecrow comes to life with the intent of scaring all the boys and girls that have ignored him. He picks Halloween as the night he comes to town and is scared silly by all the kids in costumes. Children love the fact he does not realize it is Halloween and is scared back to his post.