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From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:00:02 -0400
I'm not particularly good with scary-bloody myself (have never seen a single Freddie or Chuckie movie to tell the truth) and so am cautious about reading books of that ilk. I'm pretty much okay with most of the ones for kids, but stuff like Silence of the Lamb ---- forget it! That said, because of others' recommendations I read Stephanie Meyer's Twilight and admired it tremendously. Pretty scary, I thought, at points, but so atmospheric and romantic that even this scary-phobic reader was enthralled. Another who does this sort of thing wonderfully well to my mind is Margaret Mahy.
On the other hand I LOVE creepy books (and movies, for that matter movies like Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas). And so count me in as another Neil Gaiman fan. I read aloud Coraline when it first came out and woud again if there weren't too many kids who had already read it. I also love his and Dave McKean's delightfully creepy The Wolves in the Wall and their newest collaboration, Mirrormask (not simply a novelization of the film, but a very cool book all on its own). Another who does creepy in a witty way is Barry Yourgrau with his Nasty Book. Shocking and funny all at once for the right kid. I read a bunch of the stories aloud to great effect to last year's class although I suspect this year's would probably not take to it well at all. And also for the right kid there is Lynn Reid Bank's Angela and Diabola
(which I also read aloud last year and have several times before). Creepy, creepy, creepy indeed. And at the highest literary level no one beats David Almond in creating creepily (is that a word?) wonderful books.
Monica
Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York NY edinger at dalton.org monicaedinger at gmail.com
Received on Fri 21 Oct 2005 05:00:02 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:00:02 -0400
I'm not particularly good with scary-bloody myself (have never seen a single Freddie or Chuckie movie to tell the truth) and so am cautious about reading books of that ilk. I'm pretty much okay with most of the ones for kids, but stuff like Silence of the Lamb ---- forget it! That said, because of others' recommendations I read Stephanie Meyer's Twilight and admired it tremendously. Pretty scary, I thought, at points, but so atmospheric and romantic that even this scary-phobic reader was enthralled. Another who does this sort of thing wonderfully well to my mind is Margaret Mahy.
On the other hand I LOVE creepy books (and movies, for that matter movies like Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas). And so count me in as another Neil Gaiman fan. I read aloud Coraline when it first came out and woud again if there weren't too many kids who had already read it. I also love his and Dave McKean's delightfully creepy The Wolves in the Wall and their newest collaboration, Mirrormask (not simply a novelization of the film, but a very cool book all on its own). Another who does creepy in a witty way is Barry Yourgrau with his Nasty Book. Shocking and funny all at once for the right kid. I read a bunch of the stories aloud to great effect to last year's class although I suspect this year's would probably not take to it well at all. And also for the right kid there is Lynn Reid Bank's Angela and Diabola
(which I also read aloud last year and have several times before). Creepy, creepy, creepy indeed. And at the highest literary level no one beats David Almond in creating creepily (is that a word?) wonderful books.
Monica
Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York NY edinger at dalton.org monicaedinger at gmail.com
Received on Fri 21 Oct 2005 05:00:02 AM CDT
