Kirkus has called him the “modern master of nonsense verse” and a “nabob of nonsense,” and now Calef Brown (Soup for Breakfast, 2008, etc.) is back with a book devoted to silliness of the nefarious kind just in time for Halloween. Don’t expect to find your typical ghouls, goblins and ghosts haunting the pages of Hallowilloween. Tales of two-stepping Texan witches, a goat-eating Oompachupa Loompacabra and a shrunken head named Duncan, all told in Brown’s characteristic zany style and accompanied by equally zany artwork, will have young readers shrieking with delight instead of with terror.
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