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Fwd: Finding the Scary/correction

From: J Thomas <bookstitches_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:15:45 -0400

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> From: J Thomas <bookstitches_at_gmail.com>
> Date: October 11, 2014 at 1:14:01 PM EDT
> To: ccbc-net digest recipients <ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu>
> Subject: Finding the Scary
>
> I love telling scary stories to my 3rd fourth and fifth graders and I rely
> heavily on stories from Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Series!!!!
> In the Attic works great to create "the scary" and The Big Toe and so much more
>
> I book talk Betty Ren Wright's books Mary Hahn and John Bellairs and.....
> one cannot forget Cynthia DeFelice!!! ;-).
> Scary/humorous poetry also makes
> for a fun scary atmosphere:
> Eve Merriam's Halloween ABC and Calef Brown's Hallowilloween
> there is so much more I know I'm missing that I share with my students
> And oh, before I go....I must mention Ed Gorey's Ghastlycrumbtinies (sp?). If I have the right group of fifth or sixth graders I love to share the humor and the macabre of this book!!!! ;-)---- Many students actually
> "get" ---- the humor in it
> Desiree Threadgill
> Library Media Specialist
> Beaver Creek Elementary School
> Pennsylvania
>
>

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