On The Same Page: Over in the Hollow

Monday, October 1, 2018

Over in the Hollow

This adaptation of the song "Over in the Meadow" is a fun Halloween romp/counting book.

Sing it or read it, either way, your child will love it. Dickinson uses well-known Halloween creatures such as werewolves, vampires, Frankenstein, and skeletons to take us biting, boogieing, stomping, and howling through the hollow in 13 (what other number suits a Halloween song?) verses.

Rebecca Dickinson obviously loves Halloween since this is her 5th Halloween-themed book for children. Be sure to check out her other work when you visit Amazon to purchase this one ;)

Stephan Britt illustrated this one and the pictures are adorable, a word we don't often associate with Halloween, but he makes every page of this book FUN! Be sure to spend time carefully examining each picture with your child, looking for Britt's humorous touches.

This book is a great addition to a family or classroom Halloween collection.

Other Halloween books you might enjoy:
Halloween Rhythm and Rhyme (8 books in 1 post)
National Geographic Kids: Halloween
Halloween Night: Twenty-One Spooktacular Poems
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Favorite Poems About Reading & Books

Reading
by Marchette Chute

A story is a special thing
The ones that I have read
They do not stay inside the book
They stay inside my head.

Lucky Readers
By Jack Prelutsky
(written especially for Lucky Book Club readers)

I am a lucky person
Because I love to read.
Reading gets me thinking,
And helps me to succeed.
Sometimes when I am lonely,
A book is all I need.
I am a lucky person
Because I love to read.

I Don't Know the Title or Author, But I Love This Poem

The more you read, the more you know
The more you know, the smarter you grow
The smarter you grow, the stronger your voice
When speaking your mind or making your choice.

The Library
By Barbara A. Huff

It looks like any building
When you pass it on the street,
Made of stone and glass and marble,
Made of iron and concrete.
But once inside you can ride
A camel or a train,
Visit Rome, Siam or Nome,
Feel a hurricane.
Meet a king, learn to sing,
How to bake a pie,
Go to sea, plant a tree,
Find how airplanes fly.
Train a horse, and of course,
Have all the dogs you like,
See the moon, a sandy dune,
Or catch a whooping pike.
Everything that books can bring
You'll find inside those walls.
A world is there for you to share
When adventure calls.
You cannot tell its magic
By the way the building looks,
But there's wonderment within it,
The wonderment of books.

Read to Me
by Jane Yolen

Read to me riddles and read to me rhymes
Read to me stories of magical times
Read to me tales about castles and kings
Read to me stories of fabulous things
Read to me pirates and read to me knights
Read to me dragons and dragon-book fights
Read to me spaceships and cowboys and then
When you are finished- please read them again.

Read to Them
by Steven L. Layne

Read to them.
before the time is gone and stillness fills the room again.
Read to them.

What if it were meant to be that you were the one, the only one.
Who could unlock the doors and share the magic with them?
What if others have been daunted by scheduling demands,
district objectives, or one hundred other obstacles?

Read to them.
Be confident Charlotte has been able to teach them about friendship,
And Horton about self-worth;

Be sure the Skin Horse has been able to deliver his message.

Read to them.
Let them meet Tigger, Homer Price, Aslan, and Corduroy;
Take them to Oz, Prydain, and Camazotz;
Show them a Truffula Tree.

Read to them.
Laugh with them at Soup and Rob,
And cry with them when the Queen of Terabithia is forever lost.

Allow the Meeker family to turn loyalty, injustice and war into something much more than a vocabulary lesson.

What if you are the one, the only one,
with the chance to do it?
What if this is the critical year for even one child?

Read to them.
Before the time, the chance is gone.

Monday, October 1, 2018

Over in the Hollow

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