{"id":23299,"date":"2017-10-10T07:30:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=23299"},"modified":"2017-10-10T07:30:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:30:58","slug":"bookish-halloween-costumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=23299","title":{"rendered":"Bookish Halloween Costumes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most emails that come in to the bookstore are very business-y, so it’s\u00a0practically\u00a0a birthday present when one arrives that is simply for fun, especially when it’s a celebration of books and favorite book characters. On Monday, the bright surprise in our inbox came from a customer, Julie H., who sent the following (and gave us permission to post it):<\/p>\n

Flying Pig Bookstore,<\/div>\n
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We are big fans of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen, including their book Triangle (bought at The Flying Pig). My daughter came up with the idea of dressing up as Triangle for Halloween. We made the costume…and he came to life. We tried to store him safely on the porch, but didn’t have the heart to leave him there. We have been bringing him on our adventures and taking photos. Here are a some of our favorites. We thought you might get a kick out of them.<\/div>\n
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Cheers,<\/div>\n
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Julie<\/div>\n
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Triangle at goooooooaaaaallllll<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lake Champlain Triangle (likely looking to play a trick on our lake monster, Champ)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fall camouflage Triangle – sneaky!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mooo!<\/p><\/div>
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\n[Elizabeth again.]
\nHow great is this costume?! I love how they made the eyeballs moveable – so expressive. And Triangle is certainly making the most of his Vermont adventures leading up to Halloween.\u00a0We could not love this more! Thanks, Julie and family, for doing Triangle<\/em> proud.
\nWhen I shared Julie’s email with fellow bookseller Heather, she shared photos of her two amazing daughters as some of their favorite literary characters in Halloweens past:\n<\/div>\n

There was the Parzival<\/em> year (the Puffin version by Katherine Paterson):
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\nThere was The Princess Bride<\/em> year (note: there’s a deluxe new version of this William Goldman classic coming out today from Houghton Mifflin with illustrations by Michael\u00a0Manomivibul, and that’s the cover you see here:)
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\nAnd there was the Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride<\/em>\u00a0(Pam Mu\u00f1oz Ryan and Brian Selznick; Scholastic) year:
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\nIn this day of pre-fab costumes, it’s so much fun to see\u00a0the creativity that comes from families inspired by characters. For more ideas, in case you haven’t yet come across the fabulous EverFan.com blog post<\/a> showing a collection of\u00a0bookish costumes, here’s one sample:
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\nWhat book characters are your young ones emulating this year? If you send pix, I’ll do a post at Halloween time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Costumes made at home featuring favorite literary characters can live long beyond Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}