Tomorrow is Halloween!

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Every holiday is a big deal at our house. I’m sure it’s the same way with all those that have young children. Halloween is especially fun. Our celebrating officially started last Sunday, with Boo at the Zoo. I’m saving the photos from that great event to share with you tonight at midnight, though!

Halloween can be scary to some kids, but I find that watching cartoons and reading books about it sometimes helps alleviate those fears.

PBS KIDS has a great variety of new programming set to air tomorrow:

For preschoolers:
MARTHA SPEAKS (NEW)
Martha Gets Spooked – Is someone fixing up the haunted house? If not, who ordered those flowers? Was it the ghost of Mrs. Parkington’s Great-Aunt Martha? Whoever or whatever it was, Martha has to go in there to protect Helen, before it’s too late!
Martha Changes Her Luck – Uh-oh. Martha walked under a ladder-and broke a mirror-so now she thinks she’s jinxed. And she’s worried her bad luck is rubbing off on everybody else. Helen tries to explain that all the accidents are just coincidence, but things just keep getting worse.

SUPER WHY (NEW)
The Ghost Who Was Afraid of Halloween - It’s Halloween in Storybook Village and Pig is so frightened, he won’t go trick-or-treating with his friends! The Super Readers pay a storybook visit to Little Ghost, who’s a bit of a scaredy-cat himself, to teach him there’s more to Halloween than meets the eye.

WORDWORLD (NEW)
A Kooky Spooky Halloween – The WordFriends get their share of scares the night before Halloween, when Pig sleepwalks and everyone thinks he’s a ghost!
Sheep’s Halloween Costume – It’s Halloween – Sheep’s favorite day of the year. Sheep likes nothing more than to dress up, so she always goes out of her way to make herself a special costume. But what will she do when her WordFriends need pieces of her costume for their own costumes?

For early elementary school children:
CYBERCHASE
Spheres of Fears - In his latest and possibly maddest scheme ever, Hacker traps Digit and the kids in one of the dreaded Spheres of Fears, a mini-galaxy of orbs populated by eerie creatures called Creepers, where they must use the properties of circles to reverse Hacker’s chaos in the nick of time.

ARTHUR
What Scared Sue Ellen? – Sue Ellen isn’t afraid of anything until she takes the short cut through the woods. From that point everything appears to scare her. Arthur and the other boys accompany Sue Ellen through the woods to locate her monsters.
Clarissa is Cracked – Grandma Thora gives her favorite doll, Clarissa, to D.W. for a week. D.W. treats the antique doll like her other toys, but loving Clarissa more. Unfortunately, D.W.’s attention proves fatal to Clarissa when the doll breaks. D.W. and her family find a doll doctor to repair Grandma Thora’s treasured toy before she’s returned.

MAYA & MIGUEL
La Calavera – When Maya wants to add some oomph to her presentation about Mexico for school, she consults her Abuela Elena, who allows her to borrow a prized possession: a calavera, or skull made of sugar, that is used in the yearly Day of the Dead celebration.

I’ve already set my DVR to record some of these great programs. How ’bout you? Check your local listings.