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From: Paula Morrow <pmorrow23>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:15:35 -0500
For middle-grade readers, Robert San Souci has a couple of short-story collections: Dare to Be Scared and Double-Dare to Be Scared. They include a little of everything--ghosts, monsters, s.f., supernatural, dark fantasy ...
Paula
On 10/21/05, Karen Cruze <kcruze at nsls.info> wrote:
> For my money Coraline is the scariest book I've read in the last four or
> five years. I think it's the creepy mirror family that got to me, largely
> because of the button eyes. It's kind of primal when you think about it
> ... like a voodoo doll standing in for a person. Funny thing is it's older
>
> kids who get creeped by it more than younger kids. Is it because the older
>
> you are the more distant you are from make-believe, so a life-size doll
> family is just plain scarier once you're past playing with dolls?
>
> When I recommend scary books and booktalk them I've had the most success
> with Naylor's Jade Green. The intrigue of the color green sparking a
> ghostly apparition draws them in, and the disembodied hand has them
> shrieking. It goes out particularly among 5th, 6th and 7th grade girls.
>
> I find boys less attracted to ghosts. They seem to prefer monsters of all
> sorts. And Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak books are very popular with them.
>
> Karen Cruze - Youth Services Librarian
> Northbrook Public Library
> Northbrook Il
>
>
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Received on Fri 21 Oct 2005 01:15:35 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:15:35 -0500
For middle-grade readers, Robert San Souci has a couple of short-story collections: Dare to Be Scared and Double-Dare to Be Scared. They include a little of everything--ghosts, monsters, s.f., supernatural, dark fantasy ...
Paula
On 10/21/05, Karen Cruze <kcruze at nsls.info> wrote:
> For my money Coraline is the scariest book I've read in the last four or
> five years. I think it's the creepy mirror family that got to me, largely
> because of the button eyes. It's kind of primal when you think about it
> ... like a voodoo doll standing in for a person. Funny thing is it's older
>
> kids who get creeped by it more than younger kids. Is it because the older
>
> you are the more distant you are from make-believe, so a life-size doll
> family is just plain scarier once you're past playing with dolls?
>
> When I recommend scary books and booktalk them I've had the most success
> with Naylor's Jade Green. The intrigue of the color green sparking a
> ghostly apparition draws them in, and the disembodied hand has them
> shrieking. It goes out particularly among 5th, 6th and 7th grade girls.
>
> I find boys less attracted to ghosts. They seem to prefer monsters of all
> sorts. And Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak books are very popular with them.
>
> Karen Cruze - Youth Services Librarian
> Northbrook Public Library
> Northbrook Il
>
>
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