The Fairy's Fizzzzz

Here's the ultimate, thirst quencher for all you trick or treaters!

Flutter home and clear out the butterfly dust and silky webs for this one.

It's a wing stopper!




Gather round:
4 cups Haagan Daz vanilla honey ice cream
(from the bees!)
2 cups Minute Maid orange juice
(from the trees!)
1 cup rice milk
(from the ground!)
Lots of orange wheels
(make sure they're round!)2 Tbsp powdered sugar
(powdery and sweet!)
1 can club or orange soda
(trick or treat!)

Now for some fairy magic (ask the elder fairies to help):

Put the ice cream, orange juice, sugar, and milk in a blender. Cover with the lid. Blend on high until smoooooth. Pour mixture into glasses. Serve as is or top off with club or orange soda. Garnish with lots and lots of orange wheels!

Now, close your eyes, drink it up! Make a wish...

... Poof!!! Wish granted!

BOOks and SpOOks

Just in time for the haunting hour, dig into Neil Gaiman's latest spOOk-of-a-bOOk, The Graveyard BOOk!
What do you do when you're a loney kid and live in a graveyard? Get a few ghosts and other creatures of the night to tutor you (wish I had Silas and Miss Lupescu for my teachers!), explore the haunting worlds that are just a (tomb)stones-throw away, and live a "normal" life just like Nobody "Bod" Owen's. But never, ever leave the graveyard, unless you're ready to dig your own grave!

The Graveyard Book, with haunting illustrations by Dave McKean, is vintage Gaiman and guarantees a ghoulishly good read! You're going to love Bod, and this bOOk, to death!

Beware the Spinmeister

The Spider!and The Fly is a ghoulishly fun read in black and white bling! Winner of the 2003 Caldecott Honor and a Ghoulie Tudy rave, this book will thrill, captivate, and enthrall you. Beautifully illustrated by the talented Tony DiTerlizzi, The Spider!and the Fly does what very few books can: it actually takes you to a movie ~ a 1920s, Hollywood, silent movie! Mary Howitt's classic, "danger stranger" tale is given a whole new, cinematic twist! And what a visual spin it is!

So this Halloween, fall for the trick! Walk into this spider's! parlor and have a howlin', dastardly time. After all, as the sly, dapper spider! so fiendishly reminded us, "spiders! are not the only hunters, and bugs are not the only victims" this time of year."

 True, true!

Happy haunting...

Make Halloween Count!

Go Trick-or-Treating for UNICEF! Create your own coin canister with this downloadable, canister wrapper. Get into spirit (how about a do-good angel or a grant-a-wish fairy?) and go door-to-door for UNICEF this Halloween. Instead of treats, ask for donations to help UNICEF fight poverty by getting water, education, and medicine to kids who need it most!

UNICEF, or the United Nations Children's Fund, has been helping kids around the world for more than 50 years. And isn't it great that anyone, even kids, can help raise money to stave off poverty? Remember, just 6 cents provides water and $2.00 provides nutrition for one needy child. So it's easy, and this Halloween, it's even frightfully fun!

Trick or Treat for UNICEF! Because every boy, girl, and ghoul counts!

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The Trick's the Tale .....By Tudette

The Monster From TooWoomba

I always do my homework.
I do! It’s true! I swear!

But there’s a monster in my locker,
And it’s blue and huge and smells.

And every time I stow my books,
The monster throws me a hungry lyyk.

So I feed it all my homework.
I do! It’s true! I swear!

And that is why, dear teacher,
My homework’s there, Down Under!

Have You Met...

My little sister, Tudette? I just YYY her! She's impish, funny, and totally into plush! Can you guess what's in her closet?

She's here just in time for trick-or-treating, so help her get into costume! She has a closet full of fun!