Not Everything Spooky Is Scary

A Curiosity Driven Experience

Themes:

🔍Curiosity 👀Perspective 💪Confidence 🧠Critical Thinking

Best For:

Kindergarten–3rd Grade | Libraries | Classrooms | Assemblies

What The Students Will Discover:

Sometimes the things that seem scary become a little less mysterious when we slow down, ask questions, and take a closer look.

Through storytelling, discussion, and audience participation, students learn how curiosity can replace fear and how new perspectives can change the way we see the world.

Inspired By

The 8-time award-winning picture book Haunted House: A Day & Night Tour, this interactive author presentation invites students to explore a spooky old house—twice!


First, students tour the house during the daytime to discover the clues, props, and behind-the-scenes preparations that bring the spooky experience to life.

Then they return after dark to revisit familiar spaces, discover unexpected new ones, and experience how perspective, context, and new information can change what they think they know.

Along the way, they'll discover a powerful lesson: things are not always what they seem.

What Happens During The Visit?

Students Will:

✓ Become story detectives to reveal what's real and what's pretend

✓ Use observation, listening, and sensory cues to investigate

✓ Make predictions and test their assumptions

✓ Listen to an engaging read-aloud

✓ Participate in guided discussion and audience interaction

✓ Compare familiar scenes and discover new surprises

✓ Compare an original book cover to its revised version

✓ Explore how perspective changes understanding

✓ Discover how curiosity can replace fear of the unknown

✓ Leave with practical ways to approach unfamiliar situations

Connections To Learning

  • Supports:

    📚 Literacy Development

    ❤️ Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

    🔎 Observation & Inference

    🎨 Creativity & Revision

    💡 Critical Thinking

    ✨ Imagination

    🎭 Perspective

    🌱 Growth Mindset

  • Interactive Author Presentation

    45–60 minutes

    Large Group Assembly

    Multiple classes or grade levels

    Library Program

    Perfect for reading celebrations and literacy events

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