Curse of the Black Bubblegum: A Bisbee Halloween. Colleen Crowlie.

The Curse of the Black Bubble Gum is the creative child of multiple generations of storytellers. It started with John Steinbeck's story The Affair at 7, Rue de M which is from the perspective of the father of a bubblegum obsessed child as they vacation in Paris. This menacing bubblegum horror story is from the eye of a young boy who lives in Bisbee, Arizona. He gets the cursed gum from an old haunted home on the Tombstone Canyon. In an old mining town like this, there's a generous share of creaking old homes with chipping paint and who-knows-what inside. It's here our Trick or Treating hero first finds the gum, only to find out later that night it's alive. This Halloween picture book is filled with creepy crawling gum, and sights in Bisbee both spooky and familiar. It's a story with humor and chills that your children can relate to, and you can have fun reading aloud.