Come march with the skeleton parade, visit a haunted house, or just bob for apples with thirteen delightfully spooky poems celebrating the tricks and treats of Halloween. On September 28, 2006, Jack Prelutsky was named the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Prelutsky will serve a two-year tenure as Children's Poet Laureate: Consultant in Children's Poetry to the Poetry Foundation.