My Selection — That Terrible Halloween Night

James Stevenson’s picture book is a treat for all seasons

Cover of “That Terrible Halloween Night” / Credit: HarperCollins

James Stevenson was best known as a New Yorker cartoonist who elegantly sent up starchy doctors, lawyers, and other upper middle class Americans.

But Stevenson also wrote children’s books that won raves from critics, librarians, and young readers. Two of his most entertaining tales appear in his picture…