Picks and Pans Review: Kids Korner

UPDATED 11/04/1996 at 01:00 AM EST Originally published 11/04/1996 at 01:00 AM EST

>HALLOWEEN TREATS Here's a batch of books for young ones:

TRICK OR EEEK! by Katy Hall and Lisa Eisenberg, pictures by R. W. Alley What do you call a skeleton who won't get up? The answer (Lazy Bones) lurks beneath a coffin lid in this brightly illustrated parade of 22 silly riddles. (Harper Festival, $5.95)

MONSTER FACES STICKERS by Bob Censoni Gross yourself out designing ghouls with four pages of reusable warty noses and bloodshot eyeballs in this activity book, one of a consistently clever and smartly priced series. (Dover, $1)

CREEPY COOKIES by Tracy Curtis illustrated by Jean Pidgeon Ten easy recipes allow you to roll out the dough for sweet treats like Cocoa Bat Bites and shape it with any of five creepy cookie cutters. (Readers Digest, $7.99)

I SPY: SPOOKY NIGHT photos by Walter Wick, riddles by Jean Marzollo "I spy a saddle, six rabbits, a rose. A sea horse, a windmill and two dominoes." Hunt for camouflaged objects in and around a creaky old mansion on a misty, moonlit night in the seventh volume of this bewitching series. (Scholastic, $12.95)

THE WITCHES' SCARY HOUSE written and illustrated by Ian Honeybone, John Lupton and Mick Wells Open its oversize covers and watch the witches' digs unfold—10 rooms complete with swinging chandeliers, a trapdoor, a ghost bobbing under a staircase and newt soup bubbling on the fire. It's a howl. (St. Martin's, $19.95)

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