num_pages: 32
description: Need a Halloween costume idea? Eenie Meenie has plenty! In this rhythmic read-aloud picture book a little girl wonders what she should be for Halloween. Good thing she has a dress-up trunk full of different costume ideas!Eenie meenie Halloweenie kitty bat or snake? Perhaps a bear? I might just wear a costume that I make! Its Halloween eve and a little girl has a dress-up trunk full of different costume ideas! Orange tights and Daddys tux can transform her into a penguinor she could be an elephant with pillowcases for her ears and a sock for her nose! What costume will she choose? Eenie Meenie Halloweenie is a celebration of the ingenuity of an adorable girl creating fun costumes from everyday materials. Readers will be inspired to do the same! This jacketed hardcover picture book is perfect for the not-so-spooky storytime. 'Eenie meenie Halloweenie'so many choices. Thats what the kid in this bouncy rhyming charmer faces. These rhymed musings about what to be on Halloween will give readers/listeners dress-up ideas that they may never have consideredand present simple inexpensive homemade ways to achieve those ends with items easily found around the house. ( Kirkus starred review) In springy rhymed verse Eaddy captures her heroines inventive vision as she explores costume options while her inanimate menagerie patiently looks on. She gives multiple options a whirl sourcing domestic 'Or what about an elephant?/ I could be one of those.// With pillowcases for my ears/ a sock could be my nose.' Rendered digitally pictures by Fleming give the wide-eyed ginger-haired protagonist ample personality and energy and imbue her toy animals with a winsome homespun quality. (Publishers Weekly) 
language: English
title: Eenie, Meenie, Halloweenie
publisher: HarperCollins