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A Magic Color Book: Hocus-Pocus Halloween
Oh, no. Gloomificent the grumpy witch has taken away all the color from Halloween. That means no orange pumpkins to glow brightly and no ripe red apples for dunking. And just look at the their costumes are so drab and dull. Can you help happy Arabella undo the spells? With her magic wand, your magic tabs, and a little hocus-pocus, Halloween will certainly become vibrant once again.
- GenresWitches
10 pages, Hardcover
First published October 28, 2003
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About the author
Justine Korman Fontes
439 books63 followersJustine Korman is the author of over 600 children's books, including mega-selling adaptations of Disney hits like THE LION KING, plus her original popular GRUMPY BUNNY series for Scholastic.
Justine has been writing all her life. She worked part-time in publishing while earning her B.A. in English Literature, Phi Beta Kappa from New York University. While an editorial assistant at Golden Books, she met her future husband and partner, Ron Fontes, an artist in the Whitman Comics department, who moved on to mighty Marvel Comics.
When Justine started getting freelance writing assignments, Ron pitched in and a children's book writing team was born! Ron brought visual storytelling, theatre, and history; Justine enthusiasm, humor, and a straight-A attitude.
In 1988, the couple moved to Maine, where they have written everything from beginning readers and novelty books to historical fiction and graphic novels.
Justine's hobbies include fitness, juggling, gardening, cooking, and playing the ukulele. She also enjoys making movies with Ron.
The prolific couple's goal is to write 1001 children's books.
Justine has been writing all her life. She worked part-time in publishing while earning her B.A. in English Literature, Phi Beta Kappa from New York University. While an editorial assistant at Golden Books, she met her future husband and partner, Ron Fontes, an artist in the Whitman Comics department, who moved on to mighty Marvel Comics.
When Justine started getting freelance writing assignments, Ron pitched in and a children's book writing team was born! Ron brought visual storytelling, theatre, and history; Justine enthusiasm, humor, and a straight-A attitude.
In 1988, the couple moved to Maine, where they have written everything from beginning readers and novelty books to historical fiction and graphic novels.
Justine's hobbies include fitness, juggling, gardening, cooking, and playing the ukulele. She also enjoys making movies with Ron.
The prolific couple's goal is to write 1001 children's books.
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April 26, 2022
There was another book the Offspring had in which two witches, cousins I think in it, were going around, possibly also on Halloween, and the good witch was undoing everything the bad witch was doing. It's been a classic set-up for at least a hundred years now. The good witch is always pretty and colorful and smiling and has a lovely name like Glenda or, checks book, Abracadella, and everyone is happy to see her. And the bad witch is ugly and frowns and is drab and dressed all in black and has a name like The Wicked Witch of the West or Gloomificent. And, ugh, really, Again?
To be fair the primary attraction here is pulling the tab and seeing the color magically return to the picture which is a very neat trick if you are two and don't have an iPad yet.
I would prefer that children's books did not always equate goodness with prettiness, usually fair and blonde, often with curls. Common: you have to prepare kids to encounter identical twins and figure out which is the evil one without a big flashing sign saying The Good One.
That said, I do love the striped socks and Doc Martens look, and would like to see it used on all of the witches: so much more practical than those tall hats.
And yes, this is a book which has been sitting in various places among the To Read stacks since last August. I was going to use it for Halloween Bingo, but only because I hadn't remembered how very little text was involved.
Personal copy because the kids didn't feel the need to keep it, only I did.
To be fair the primary attraction here is pulling the tab and seeing the color magically return to the picture which is a very neat trick if you are two and don't have an iPad yet.
I would prefer that children's books did not always equate goodness with prettiness, usually fair and blonde, often with curls. Common: you have to prepare kids to encounter identical twins and figure out which is the evil one without a big flashing sign saying The Good One.
That said, I do love the striped socks and Doc Martens look, and would like to see it used on all of the witches: so much more practical than those tall hats.
And yes, this is a book which has been sitting in various places among the To Read stacks since last August. I was going to use it for Halloween Bingo, but only because I hadn't remembered how very little text was involved.
Personal copy because the kids didn't feel the need to keep it, only I did.
May 2, 2020
This is a fun interactive book for young children. The words are small and a little bit more complicated, because of this it is not a great book for children to read on their own. However, if they are reading it with a parent or having it read to them it can be a fun book to read that can teach children about staying positive and trying to help whoever you can.
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