KEYNOTE: Are you ready for Hallowilloween? With wolves witches and everything in between? Welcome to the spooky side of Calef Brown's imagination, where things are just as scarily silly as they seem! It's a magic night, a silly, spooky scene. Are you ready for Hallowilloween? Polkabats and Octopus Slacks: 14 Stories "Pure mania and inspiration ...I call it a masterpiece"-Danial Pinkwater, NPR'S Weekend Edition Flamingos on the Roof A #1 New York Times Bestseller "Silly it may be, but all the best kind, prompting the reader to see the world (slightly) askew and to delight in it."-Horn Book Soup for Breakfast "A smorgasbord of punditry and weirdness, this collection will remind kids that poetry and pictures can exist just for kicks."-Publishers Weekly AGES 5-8 GRADES:K-3 AUTHOR: Calef Brown began his career as a tour guide at an early age, when he discovered the simple joy of pointing things out. He is also an artist, writer, and frequently a blue elephant. Mr. Brown's illustrations have appeared in many magazines and newspapers, and his paintings have been exhibited in N.Y., L.A., S.F., and other places without fancy initials, like Osaka and Rome.