Monsters, Witches & Ghosts Picture Books | Westchester Library System

1) Benita y las criaturas nocturnas

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Llanos, Mariana

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A Benita le encanta leer en la cama, pero la interrumpen continuamente un Tunche que silba, un Supay aterrador y otras criaturas espeluznantes de la tradición peruana. Para incredulidad de las criaturas, Benita está tan absorta en su libro que no les tiene miedo en lo más mínimo. Esta divertida celebración de la lectura antes de dormir le da un giro global a quitarle lo "aterrador" a los monstruos, ¡ahora en español!

2) Mad for math: Become a monster at mathematics!

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"Learn math while having fun! The games and activities in this book are specifically designed to help kids tackle math concepts with a wacky, wonderful story and colorful illustrations. Kids will have so much fun, they won't realize they're learning! This book includes: 1. Counting up to 20, 2. Addition and subtraction, 3. Multiplication as repeated addition, 4. Introduction to the concept of division, 5. Problem-solving strategies." --Back cover. ...

3) She made a monster: how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein

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On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. She longed to follow the path her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had started down, but young Mary Shelley had yet to be inspired. As the night wore on, Mary grew more anxious. The next day was the deadline that her friend, the poet Lord Byron, had set for writing the best ghost story. After much talk of science and the secrets of life,...

4) Mad for math: Spooky problems

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"Two of the biggest challenges that children face while learning math are logic and problem solving. Learning to understand the reasoning that hides behind a "problem," will become an extremely engaging and satisfying game. This also provides the foundations for acquiring logical and deductive abilities, which are essential in any field. Children will find multiple choice questions and math problems, as well as hidden codes, labyrinths and other fun...

5) Pretty ugly : a Toon book: Toon Level 2

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"In this hilarious illustrated fable, Anna Van Ogre loses her lovely monstrous looks and is turned into a sickeningly adorable, rosy-cheeked little girl. It starts her on a journey to learn an unforgettable lesson about true beauty"--

6) I Do Not Eat Children

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Jaramillo, Susie

8) Benita and the night creatures

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Llanos, Mariana

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"Benita loves to read in bed but keeps getting interrupted by a whistling Tunche, a scary Supay and other spooky creatures from Peruvian lore. To the creatures' disbelief, Benita is so absorbed by her book that she's not the least bit scared of them. This humorous celebration of bedtime reading puts a global twist on taking the "scary" out of monsters." --

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Posner-Sanchez, Andrea

Description

Introduces the Count and what he likes to do, say, and play.

10) Skeletown: Sí. ¡No!

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"Skeleton-like characters inspired by Día de los Muertos engage in "good" and "bad" behavior in a humorous exploration of opposites"--

11) Huesos / Bones

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San Vicente, Luis

12) The chupacabra ate the candelabra

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Nobleman, Marc Tyler

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

Description

Three anxious goats scramble to avoid being eaten by the legendary chupacabra, whose favorite food is not what they expect.

13) Creepy pair of underwear!

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Reynolds, Aaron

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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"A young rabbit is frightened by his underwear"--

14) The dangerous alphabet

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As two children and their pet gazelle sneak out of the house in search of treasure, they come across a world beneath the city that is inhabited with monsters and pirates.

15) So not ghoul

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Publisher Annotation: On her first day haunting a new school, all Mimi has to wear are old Chinese gowns from her great-great-great-great-great-ghost-grandmother. She wants to look horrifying and rattle chains with the cool American ghouls at school, but her ghost ancestors insist she dress and behave like a good Chinese ghost. Desperate to fit in and find a middle haunting ground between her cultures, she plans a ghastly new look. But she questions...

16) The lima bean monster

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After Sammy's dumping of the lima beans he does not want to eat starts a neighborhood trend to put rejected vegetables in a hole in a vacant lot, a terrible lima bean monster rises to terrorize the town.

17) Cackle Cook's monster stew

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Wolff, Patricia Rae

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Although Cackle Cook's pet monster hates gathering the ingredients, from ape hair to zombie clump, for her world-famous monster stew, he loves to eat it.

18) The teeny tiny ghost and the monster

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The teeny tiny ghost and his classmates enter a monster-making contest at their school.

19) The little old lady who was not afraid of anything

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Williams, Linda

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Book, eAudiobook

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A little old lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with a pumpkin head, a tall black hat, and other spooky objects that follow her through the dark woods trying to scare her.

20) Lines that wiggle

Author

Whitman, Candace

Description

A variety of monsters and other creatures demonstrate some of the different things that lines can do, from curve and curl to zig-zag.