I looooove Halloween. Everything about it. Especially the TREAT part. The root of these Haunted Hooters is from Sunset Magazine, but mine are made with pumpkin dough and chocolate icing. There's a great cookie cutter shop in Ballard called Cookie that stocks every imaginable cookie cutter and cookie accessory you could imagine. I got the parent sized owl cookie cutter there, but the baby owls are free form and blobby like I imagine baby owls really are (or if they'd turned out much blobbier they would have been owl pellet cookies. Mmm.) That's also where the exciting eyeballs came from!

Lots of important Halloween TV this week. Or there used to be. It's a shame nobody is showing the Wonderful World of Disney Halloween Hall of Fame like they used to show on Sundays -- the one hosted by the Magic Mirror from Snow White showing clips of all the best Disney villians? I think it also included the Trick or Treat cartoon with Donald Duck and Witch Hazel and maybe a few other cartoon shorts with Mickey and Pluto.

Without access to the show above we watched 28 Weeks Later last night which is sort of the absolutely exact opposite of Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Nor is it as good as 28 Days Later or Shaun of the Dead or Sleepy Hollow or It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (which is on ABC on Tuesday this week.)

Ooo and books! Some of the books that put the 'boo' in children's books:

The Last Apprentice Series by Joseph Delaney, illustrated by Patrick Arrasmith
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber, illustrated by Marc Simont
The Beast of Noor by Janet Lee Carey
The Haunted House by Jan Pienkowski
Pumpkin Eye by Denise Fleming
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? by Margaret McNamara, illustrated by G. Brian Karas
Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Halloween by Ed Emberley
Aaargh, Spider! by Lydia Monks
The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt, illustrated by Toni DiTerlizzi
The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey
The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard, illustrated by James Marshall
The Witches by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake