THE SKELETON IN THE CLOSET

A skeleton, not feeling content in his bare bones, sets out to find some clothes. Bones enters the house of a young boy, climbs the stairs to his room, rifles through his closet, and puts together an outfit from head to toe complete with bear-shaped bedroom slippers. Satisfied and with a thumbs-up farewell, Bones moves on to the next abode. Told in a humorous upbeat rhyme, the boy’s nighttime fears are tempered by the clothing needs of his bizarre nightmare character. Mixed-media cartoon-style art gives the boy a Dennis-the-Menace look and the skeleton an alien quality, his large, bulging, green eyes offset by the beige tones of his skeletal form. Background colors of midnight blues and contrasting greens round out the nocturnal bedroom scenes. Offbeat bedtime comforter. (Picture book. 3-5)