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  Ollie's Halloween

  Olivier Dunrea

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  Ollie's Halloween

  Olivier Dunrea

  Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  Boston New York 2010

  Copyright © 2010 by Olivier Dunrea

  All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book,

  write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South,

  New York, New York 10003.

  Houghton Mifflin Books for Children is an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  Publishing Company.

  www.hmhbooks.com

  The text of this book is set in MShannon.

  The illustrations are pen and ink and gouache on 140-pound d'Arches coldpress watercolor paper.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Dunrea, Olivier.

  Ollie's Halloween / written and illustrated by Olivier Dunrea.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Dressed in their costumes, Ollie and his siblings go out on Halloween night and have

  a scary but fun adventure.

  ISBN 978-0-618-53241-4

  [1. Stories in rhyme. 2. Geese—Fiction. 3. Halloween—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ8.3.D9266Ol 2010

  [E]—dc22

  2009049699

  Manufactured in China / LEO 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

  4500218372

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  For the five wee goblins

  in my life—

  Johnny, Molly, Gabe,

  Peedie, and Fergus

  This is Gossie.

  She is a wizard.

  This is Gertie.

  She is a chicken.

  This is Peedie.

  He is a dragon.

  This is BooBoo.

  She is a bunny.

  This is Ollie.

  He is a mummy.

  It's Halloween night.

  A night to beware.

  A night to scare.

  Goslings are on the prowl!

  Hooting like owls.

  Howling like wolves.

  Creeping through bogs.

  Scaring frogs.

  Gossie and Gertie poke around the pumpkins.

  Peedie and BooBoo creep behind the beehives.

  Ollie stalks in the cornfield.

  Gossie and Gertie gobble treats in the haystacks.

  Peedie and BooBoo gobble treats in the cornstalks.

  Ollie stares at a ghost in the open barn door.

  "Boo!" shouts Ollie.

  It's Halloween night.

  A night to beware.

  A night to scare.

  Hooting! Howling! Haunting!

  Goslings bob for apples in the wooden tub.

  In the meadow the scarecrow shivers in the wind.

  Thunder rumbles.

  Lightning flashes.

  Goslings run back to the barn!

  Gossie and Gertie, Peedie and BooBoo, feast on the last pile of treats.

  Ollie stands alone in the dark.

  It's Halloween night.

  A night to share.

 

 

  Olivier Dunrea, Ollie's Halloween

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