{"id":27428,"date":"2018-10-16T07:30:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=27428"},"modified":"2018-10-16T07:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:30:55","slug":"beyond-candy-at-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=27428","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Candy at Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always wished\u00a0we could afford to give away books\u00a0for Halloween. I\u00a0suppose it’s possible for booksellers to give away extra ARCs past their pub dates, but in neighborhoods that receive hundreds of\u00a0trick-or-treaters, that’s not really feasible, and besides, we want kids to take their time choosing a book.\u00a0Running door to door doesn’t really\u00a0foster\u00a0mindful pondering. However,\u00a0one of our customers has found a beautiful\u00a0way to share the magic of words and imagination on Halloween night.
\nKristin\u00a0is a sort of magical person anyway \u2014 a graceful, kind, deeply thoughtful and calm person who always brings light into the store with her. I suspect if you told little children (and many adults) that\u00a0Kristin\u00a0was half-faerie, half-human,\u00a0they would believe it, no questions asked. She just has that fey sparkle about her.
\nLast week,\u00a0Kristin was uncharacteristically hurried when she came in to pick up a book.\u00a0She was rushing, she said, because she needed to\u00a0get home to\u00a0prepare more Halloween treats. She’s recently moved to a\u00a0neighborhood where each house gets\u00a0500 (!) trick-or-treaters. That is a LOT of treats to gather, and\u00a0though Kristin\u00a0will have traditional\u00a0candy to offer kids, she is also creating a marvelous non-food treat for them, too: Dream Tickets.
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This isn’t an actual photo of Kristin’s Dream\u00a0Tickets, but it’s what I imagine they might look like. (Image found at MelDArtStudio on Etsy. Click the pic to visit their site.)<\/p><\/div>
\nKristin\u00a0cut out hundreds of little 2″ x 2″ cards and is rubber-stamping a\u00a0mysterious moon on one side and writing a Dream Ticket\u2014500 unique ones!\u2014on the other. A child might find\u00a0an\u00a0adventure, or a superpower, on these tickets, but not\u00a0the kind they’d expect. These aren’t garden-variety\u00a0powers like invisibility or super-strength, but possibilities that open the imagination in delightful and gentle ways.
\nChildren might pick cards that grant them the ability to:<\/p>\n