Trick? Or Treat?
Each year, lots of families carve jack-o’-lanterns to celebrate Halloween. But did you know that the first jack-o’-lanterns were carved from turnips, not pumpkins? In Ireland and Scotland people hollowed out turnips and gave them creepy faces to celebrate the feast of All Hallows’ Eve. Many years later, when immigrants from the UK arrived in North America, they discovered that the native pumpkin made a much better jack-o’-lantern, because it was larger and softer than a turnip.
Trick-or-treating would look quite different today, without those familiar orange faces glowing in the dark!
Here are some wonderful, Halloween-themed books that will help get you ready to trick or treat:
The Thirteenth Cat by Mary Downing Hahn
Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
The Witch's Boy by Kelly Barnhill
Ghost Girl by Ally Malinenko
Pick a Pumpkin by Patricia Toht
The Little Kitten (My Little Animal Friend) by Nicola Killen
Bonaparte Falls Apart by Margery Cuyler
There's a Witch in Your Book (Who's In Your Book?) by Tom Fletcher
Stumpkin by Lucy Ruth Cummins
Five Little Pumpkins (Pete the Cat) by James Dean
Little Blue Truck's Halloween (Little Blue Truck) by Alice Schertle
Monster Trucks by Anika Denise
