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Marley the loveable, trouble-making yellow lab stars in another holiday adventure in the picture book Trick or Treat, Marley! by John Grogan, author of Marley & Me.
Marley's family is throwing a Halloween party. Cassie and Baby Louie are having lots of fun putting up spooky decorations. And Marley's having even more fun destroying them. The kids hang a creepy skeleton. Marley runs away with the leg bone. The kids string fake spider webs on the stairs. Marley sweeps them up with his tail. The kids carve pumpkins. Marley gets his head stuck in a jack-o'-lantern.
Worst of all--he eats every piece of Halloween candy!
Will Marley's family be able to have any Halloween fun with their naughty puppy around?
Richard Cowdrey's illustrations bring the charming and mischievous Marley to life.
Author Notes
Bestselling author, John Grogan, was born on March 20, 1957 in Detroit, Michigan. He majored in journalism and English at Central Michigan University. In 1985, Grogan won a fellowship into the Kiplinger Mid-Career Program in Public Affairs Reporting at Ohio State University, where he obtained his Masters degree. Grogan earned a second fellowship at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida. Grogan's first full-time writing job was as a police reporter for the Herald-Palladium in Michigan. Grogan has also written for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and was also editor of Rodale's Organic Gardening magazine.
Grogan's book, Marley and Me, spent over seventy-six weeks on the bestseller list and was made into a movie in 2008. Grogan and his wife, Jenny, live in rural Pennsylvania.
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 1-In this picture book, Marley is up to some new tricks. While Cassie, Baby Louie, and their mother are decorating the house for a party, the pup manages to get his head stuck in a pumpkin, pop the balloons, and tear streamers into confetti. His next stop-the doghouse. He is granted a second chance at attending the party by Dad, but Marley is Marley and he gets into plenty of mischief again, including eating candy, which makes him sick. When it's time to go trick-or-treating, he stays behind and holds the basket for the kids who come to visit Cassie's house. The colorful illustrations are awash with energy. On one spread, as the pumpkin comes apart after Marley smashes into a wall, he looks as if he's about to jump off the page and into readers' laps. Purchase if other books in this series are popular, or to add to Halloween collections.-Anne Beier, Hendrick Hudson Free Library, Montrose, NY (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Marley's family is hosting a Halloween party, which means lots of opportunities for the puppy to get into trouble in this nostalgic addition to Grogan's bestselling series. Getting his head stuck in a pumpkin is just the beginning: Marley bobs for apples, steals the tail on the donkey, and gobbles all of the candy. Though there's little subtlety in the story or art, Marley's shenan-igans should continue to charm dog-lovers. Ages 3-8. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
