  | Full Text Reviews: Booklist - 09/15/2016 Living in the middle of a forest full of huge trees is a little house occupied by a small lady with a gigantic problem—her house is about to be buried by leaves. She calls out, but her voice is “teeny tiny” and no one hears. Even banging her pots and pans and cookie sheets together doesn’t do the trick. But all those cooking implements give her an idea: who can resist the aroma of baking cookies? There’s no smell too small for a gang of trick-or-treaters to notice, and when they discover the small-house-sized pile of leaves, they start digging until they find the door and receive the perfect Halloween treat. Wohl’s singsongy text presses the phrase teeny tiny to its limit, but the repetition might be a hit with group storytimes. Cole’s warm illustrations in a seasonally rusty palette, full of tawny oak leaves and looming tree trunks, nicely evoke both the coziness of the woman’s little house and the vague but gentle eeriness of the woods. A fine choice for a Halloween read-aloud. - Copyright 2016 Booklist. Loading...
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