SuitabookDisruption and community response
The Herdman children’s behaviour affects Halloween across the whole town, leading the mayor to consider cancelling the celebration.
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Barbara Robinson - Author
This is a comic Halloween sequel about six children whose repeated misbehaviour disrupts the whole town. It combines theft, spray-painting and threatened loss of celebration with a reversal in which the disrupted event is presented as unexpectedly successful.
The six horrible Herdman children create mayhem during Halloween. Annotation. The Herdmans plus Halloween have always spelled disaster. Every year these six kids -- the worst in the history of Woodrow Wilson School, and possibly even the world -- wreak havoc on the whole town. They steal candy, spray-paint kids, and take anything that's not nailed down. Now the mayor has had it. He's decided to cancel Halloween. There won't be any Herdmans to contend with this year, but there won't be any candy, either. And what's Halloween without candy? And without trick-or-treating? The Herdmans manage to turn the worst Halloween ever into the best Halloween ever in this uproarious sequel to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a comic Halloween sequel about six children whose repeated misbehaviour disrupts the whole town. It combines theft, spray-painting and threatened loss of celebration with a reversal in which the disrupted event is presented as unexpectedly successful.
The Herdman children’s behaviour affects Halloween across the whole town, leading the mayor to consider cancelling the celebration.
The children steal candy, spray-paint children and take objects, while the story is presented as an uproarious sequel.
A Halloween expected to be the worst ever is stated to become the best ever, despite the earlier disruption.
Consider whether the humour makes the Herdmans’ actions seem harmless or leaves their effects visible. It may help to distinguish enjoying a chaotic story from approving of stealing, damaging property or affecting other people’s celebration.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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