Somebody in the family is about to spend an evening being carried around a neighborhood in a costume they did not choose, and this is the book that records it. A To and From panel sits under the front cover flap, so whoever gives it writes the year and the message, and the first Halloween stops being a photograph nobody labelled.

The pages ask the questions rather than answering them. What will your costume be. How will you carve your pumpkin. A glittered jack o lantern grins off the cover in orange and purple, and inside there are candy corn, lollipops, trick or treating and the friendly end of Halloween throughout, with nothing in it that will worry a baby at bedtime.

Sixteen thick board pages, five inches square, from Cottage Door Press's Little Bird Greetings keepsake line, written by Rosa VonFeder and illustrated by Mei Stoyva. A mailing envelope and a foil seal are included so it can be given in place of a card.