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Toddler Time
By Sarah Kieley
New York: Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2021. Picture Book.

A Halloween variation on the popular children's song 'The Wheels on the Bus,' with a spooky bus full of ghosts, witches, cats, pumpkins, bats, candy, and a furry monster bus driver. --Publisher

Preschool Time
Written by Carolyn Crimi
Illustrated by John Manders
Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2008. Picture Book.

One deep, dark night, as all of the monsters are preparing for bed, Little Baby Mummy bravely searches for his mother until he sees a truly terrifying creature. --Editor

Preschool Time
Written by Ana Siqueira
Illustrated by Irena Freitas
New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2022. Picture Book.

If you get a new babysitter, and it's almost Halloween, be wary... for she might just be a bruja! --Publisher
Book Babies
By Wendell Minor
Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2021. Picture Book.

When Halloween comes around, pumpkins are turned into pumpkin heads of different kinds and greet trick-or-treaters. --Editor

Monday Cuentos
By Susie Jaramillo
New York, NY : Roaring Brook Press, 2022. Libro Illustrado.

El Entremundos es un lugar peculiar que visitan aquellos que están vivos pero dormidos, y donde los muertitos pasan el tiempo cuando tienen "asuntos pendientes". Los visitantes que llegan al Entremundos están allí porque tienen que enfrentar sus miedos o porque van a ver a alguien que recientemente dejó el mundo de los vivos. De cualquier forma, ¡siempre pueden contar con la ayuda de Skeletina! --Editor

Friday Cuentos
Cómo contrar hasta uno: ¡Ni se te ocurra pensar en números mayores!
Written by Caspar Salmon
Illustrated by Matt Hunt
Spain: Edelvives, 2022. Libro Illustrado.

Supongo que sabes contar, no? ¡ESTUPENDO! En este libro tienes montones de COSAS para contar: ballenas, arcoíris, moscas, trompetas ... Pero hay UNA condición: SOLO puedes contar hasta UNO. ¡Ni se te ocurra pensar en números mayores! ¿VALE? Un libro que desafia el ingenio de los pequeños lectores, para hacerles reír una y mil veces. --Publisher

Cuentitos
By Sandra Boynton
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019. Libro de Cartón.

¡Zapateen con los pies! ¡Aplaudan con las manitas! Es la ¡danza del corral! --Editor

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