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From: Reid, Robert A. <REIDRA>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:24:31 -0500
When I was a practicing public librarian, I always had kids (usually 5th-6th graders) coming up to me wanting "a real scary book." And they already knew the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series and, of course, Goosebumps. After doing a little mini-interview to find out what they could handle, the three titles that consistently got the best responses were Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn, The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright, and The Witch's Sister by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. If I were still at a public library, I would undoubtedly add Coraline.
Rob Reid University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
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From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu on behalf of Megan Schliesman Sent: Wed 10/19/2005 3:46 PM To: Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: [CCBC-Net] Scary Stories
It's time to shift our attention to the topic on CCBC-Net for the second half of October: Scary Stories.
How do you use scary stories in your library or classroom? Are there specific authors, titles or types of books that children and teens request over and over again?
I've never considered myself a big fan of "scary" books--either when I was a child, or today. That is to say it's not a type of literature I sought out or seek out. But recently I've come to appreicate how truly fine writing makes even a suspenseful or scary book one that appeals to me. Two examples from my own reading are Coraline by Neil Gaiman, and Dorp Dead by Julia Cunningham (which was originally published in 1965, and released in new edition in 2000). Both these books are extrordinarily suspenseful, and so very well crafted. Of course the degree to which one finds them scary lies in the response of individual readers.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
ph: 608-262-9503 fax: 608-262-4933 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
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Received on Wed 19 Oct 2005 04:24:31 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:24:31 -0500
When I was a practicing public librarian, I always had kids (usually 5th-6th graders) coming up to me wanting "a real scary book." And they already knew the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series and, of course, Goosebumps. After doing a little mini-interview to find out what they could handle, the three titles that consistently got the best responses were Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn, The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright, and The Witch's Sister by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. If I were still at a public library, I would undoubtedly add Coraline.
Rob Reid University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
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From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu on behalf of Megan Schliesman Sent: Wed 10/19/2005 3:46 PM To: Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: [CCBC-Net] Scary Stories
It's time to shift our attention to the topic on CCBC-Net for the second half of October: Scary Stories.
How do you use scary stories in your library or classroom? Are there specific authors, titles or types of books that children and teens request over and over again?
I've never considered myself a big fan of "scary" books--either when I was a child, or today. That is to say it's not a type of literature I sought out or seek out. But recently I've come to appreicate how truly fine writing makes even a suspenseful or scary book one that appeals to me. Two examples from my own reading are Coraline by Neil Gaiman, and Dorp Dead by Julia Cunningham (which was originally published in 1965, and released in new edition in 2000). Both these books are extrordinarily suspenseful, and so very well crafted. Of course the degree to which one finds them scary lies in the response of individual readers.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
ph: 608-262-9503 fax: 608-262-4933 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
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