Explains the origins of the holiday of Halloween and such traditions as black cats, jack-o-lanterns, witches, bonfires, and trick-or-treating.

Complemented by more than two hundred full-color photographs, a family-friendly guide to Halloween is filled with delicious recipes, fun-filled games, ghoulish decorations, creative crafts, ingenious costume ideas, and party-planning suggestions to help everyone in the family enjoy the spookiest holiday of the year.

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing Halloween motifs including pumpkins, ghosts, a black cat, gravestones, a witch, a skeleton, and a haunted mansion.

All the other dogs make fun of Oscar the dachshund until one Halloween when, dressed as a hot dog, Oscar bravely rescues the others.

Madea, Bam, and Hattie venture to a haunted campground and the group must run for their lives when monsters, goblins, and the boogeyman are unleashed.

Halloween night visitors include a witch, a jack-o-lantern, an owl, a skeleton, and children.

Amelia Bedelia tries to help Mr. and Mrs. Rogers with their Halloween party.

"Lisa Morton reveals how holidays like the Celtic 'Samhain' and Catholic All Souls' Day have blended to produce the modern Halloween, and she shows how the holiday has been reborn in America, where costumes and trick-or-treat rituals are new customs. She takes into account the influence of related but independent holidays, especially Mexico's Day of the Dead, as well as the explosion in popularity of haunted attractions and the impact of events such...

With Halloween approaching, Junie B. needs to find a costume that will scare off the real witches and ghosts that she believes will be out on the holiday.