Local trick or treater, Everett, WA.

Here’s an entirely new take on trick-or-treating. The Herald (Everett, WA) reports that a local couple gave out books instead of candy this Halloween. Yes, books.

According to the Herald the Reeves family had “tried the literary approach last year, the little goblins, super heroes and princesses all seemed happy to receive a different kind of treat…”

And so they did it again. And got away with it!

Anne Reeves told the Herald that, “she was inspired last year to try the book giveaway for Halloween after reading a comic strip in the newspaper. A teenager in the strip Stone Soup was suggesting that her mother hand out books instead of candy.”

This year Reeves was giving out books suitable for kindergarten through fourth graders. And most of her stock came from a recent library book sale.

Get ’em while they’re young, I say.