Nos. 33 and 34

I put this book out every year with my Halloween decorations. I finally decided to read all of it!

It's a collection of "spooky poems and tales".

I bought it when I was a kid... in a book order!! Do you remember those? Best things ever!

The poems and tales weren't that scary. But I really liked this one:

When the night wind howls in the chimney cowls, 

and the bat in the moonlight flies, 

And inky clouds, like funeral shrouds, sail over the midnight skies--

When the footpads quail at the night-bird's wail,

and black dogs bay at the moon, 

Then is the spectres' holiday -- then is the ghosts' highnoon!

-William Schwenck Gilbert

Spooky!!

No 34 was Missing Pieces, by Norma Fox Mazer:

As you can see from the acid-washed denim jacket, it's from the '90s. Eryn was thinning the THS library collection again, and I grabbed a few "gems". This was about a girl looking for her father, who left the family when she was a baby. It's a pretty good book for young readers.

:)