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Teeny-Tiny and the Witch Woman…And 4 More Spine-Tingling Tales

Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:00 am

Date Released to Theaters: September 26, 2006
Date Released to DVD: October 27, 2011
Amazon.com ASIN: B000H0M47U

Teeny-Tiny and the Witch-Woman… and 4 More Spine-Tingling Tales is a perfect Halloween treat for the littlest trick-or-treaters, with stories that are more fun than scary.

Teeny-Tiny is the story of a boy who outsmarts the witch who wants to eat him and his brothers and sisters for dinner.  The Witch in the Cherry Tree wants to eat a family’s freshly-backed cakes and David and his mother must find a way to outsmart her.  The Boy With Two Shadows finds out what can go wrong when you promise to help a witch.  In Space Case, a space traveler makes a friend on Earth.  And in King of the Cats, an old man tells his wife about the strange procession of cats he saw in the Louisiana bayou.

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Quiz: How Well Do You Know Halloween Movies?

Posted on October 23, 2011 at 8:00 am

Get into the spooky spirit of Halloween with this quiz that covers movies with ghosts, goblins, and witches.  How many do you know?

1. High school witches get revenge on a mean girl by making her hair fall out but then their spells become more deadly.

2. When attendees at a witch convention discover that a boy knows who they are, they turn him into a mouse.

3.  A brother and sister move into a haunted house and unravel a mystery about what happened to the mother of their beautiful but troubled neighbor.

4.  A suburban mother thinks the ghosts in her home are kind of fun until they kidnap her daughter.

5.  A young widow is befriended by the ghost of a sea captain.

6.  300 years after they were hung, three witches return to Salem, Massachusetts to suck the life from children.

7.  A witch needs the heart of a star to keep her looking forever young.

8.  A witch kidnaps a princess to keep her looking forever young.

9.  A beautiful witch casts a spell on a publisher to make him fall in love with her with the help of her cat, Pyewacket.

10.  One of America’s most acclaimed novelists wrote a book that became a movie about three witches in New England who summon a newcomer who just might be the devil.

11. The ghosts are the good guys in this story about a loving couple who retain the services of a people exterminator when a wealthy but crass couple move into their home.

12.  The ghost of a departed spouse creates complications (at least three possible answers!).

 

Bonus question: What actress played witches in two of the movies listed above?

 

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Halloween Books for Kids from Reading Rockets

Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:00 am

Reading Rockets has ten books for families about Halloween, including A Newbery Halloween : A Dozen Scary Stories by Newbery Award-Winning Authors, Hoodwinked (a little witch finds a surprising pet), and Pumpkin Pumpkin (a tiny seed grows into a pumpkin which makes its own seed to be planted next year).  Happy Halloween!

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