This year's Halloween season brings us Dinner with Dracula: A Spine-Tingling Collection of Frighteningly Funny Poems, edited by Bruce Lansky and illustrated by Mike & Carl Gordon



This collection features silly poems in rhyme from Bruce Lansky, (Children's Poet Laureate) Jack Prelutsky, Ken Nesbitt, Paul Orshoski and others. Not strictly a Halloween book, by any stretch, this one features poems about monsters and witches, but also about some mistaken fears. All of the poems are humorous in tone.

My personal favorites of the poems in the book are:

Bigfoot's Bottom by Paul R. Orshoski (exactly what you think it's about), Science Homework by Kenn Nesbitt (a graphic depiction of what happens when your science project escapes the test tube), Frankenstein's Walk by Bill Dodds, and Mama Monster's Lullaby by Marilyn Helmer.

Twenty-five poems, all good for a giggle, and just perfect for Halloween.