A witty collection of 20 limericks about things spooky, creepy, and crawly! There’s a ghost of a grizzly bear, a chess-playing ghoul, and a "witchhiking" witch all grimly illustrated by Gris Grimly. This book is a must-have for all trick-or-treaters on Halloween! Grade 3-6–Pearson's 19 poems, using limerick form, are rather ordinary–A witch named Bettina von Spike/had neither a broom nor a bike…/nor a car, nor a truck–/she was quite out of luck./Poor Bettina was forced to witchhike. Or When Howard the goblin caught sight/of Gertrude the gremlin one night,/he fell in a swoon/that lasted till June./It must have been love at first fright. In spite of the clever title and Grimly's eerily wonderful pen-and-ink artwork, Jack Prelutsky and Arnold Lobel's Nightmares (1977; o.p.) and The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight (1980, both HarperCollins) offer more clever frights and masterful wordplay. –Kathleen Whalin, York Public Library, ME Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Author Susan Pearson lives on a spooky hilltop in Plainfield, Massachusetts, where she writes and edits books for children. Among her poetry collections are Squeal and Squawk: Barnyard Talk and Who Swallowed Harold? And Other Poems about Pets . Illustrator Gris Grimly is the author and illustrator of Little Jordan Ray’s Muddy Spud and Wicked Nursery Rhymes . He is also the illustrator of many other books, including a collection of Edgar Allan Poe stories. He lives in Pasadena, California.