Dragon’s Halloween by Dav Pilkey is the fifth book in the Dragon series, and is a great book for young readers. I love the Dragon books. They are sweet, and silly. The illustrations are worth paying attention to. You will find all sorts of extra laughs. Even though the book has simple words, the descriptions are marvelous. The book begins “It was October, and all the world was orange and brown.”
Dragon’s Halloween is divided into three short chapters. In the first, Dragon searches a pumpkin patch for a pumpkin as big as a house to make into a scary jack o’lantern. All that’s left in the pumpkin patch though are six small pumpkins. Other characters laugh at his little pumpkins. But Dragon ignores them and stacks his little pumpkins together to make a monster. On the very top of the monster are two little pumpkins that glow as spooky eyes. His stack of pumpkins scares everyone, including Dragon!
The next chapter has Dragon deciding what to be for Halloween. He can’t decide and so he goes at a vampire, and a witch, and a mummy. By the time he gets to the Halloween party his costume is soaked in a rainstorm. No one thinks he’s scary at all. At least until a pumpkin falls on his head. As he staggers around the room covered with slimy orange pumpkin goop all his friends think he’s a monster.
In the third chapter, Dragon walks through “The Deep Dark Woods”. The woods are full of scary sounds, the squish of wet leaves, and the howl of the wind. Dragon is most frightened by a strange growling noise. It turns out the growl is coming from his own hungry tummy. He ends up going home and eating all sorts of pumpkin treats including pumpkin pizzas and pumpkin ice-cream sundaes.
Also See:
The Dragon Books by Dav Pilkey
Happy Haunting, Amelia Bedelia – Herman Parish
Arthur’s Halloween – Marc Brown