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A Very Hairy Scary Story
Sarah's walk home is perfectly safe, but you know how creepy things can look when it's getting dark. Shadows take on lives of their own, any noise can make you jump, and a perfectly normal yard can seem pretty scary indeed.
Witty verse propels Sarah from fright to fright while with each page turn, kids can see the harmless everyday objects that inspire her fear. Kids won'
...moreHardcover, 32 pages
Published
August 19th 2004
by Putnam Juvenile
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My reading this month seems to be converging on a theme of perception. In A Very Hairy Scary Story by Rick Walton, Sarah learns what happens when her imagination runs amok. Things go amiss when Sarah accidentally stays to late at her friend's house. Her walk home at dusk brings to life lots of imagined monsters. Can she make it home safely?
The illustrations by David H. Clark bring this book to life. Each page shows a shadow of the thing Sarah will see next. My son and I like to stud how the norm...more
The illustrations by David H. Clark bring this book to life. Each page shows a shadow of the thing Sarah will see next. My son and I like to stud how the norm...more
This little girl stays at her friends to late, so she tries to sneak back so her dad won't know. Along the way she runs into all kinds of hairy scary fiends. In the end she runs into her dad who carries her home in his warm, safe embrace. A good book about trusting your parents or adults because sometimes there are much scarier things out there then your dad being upset your home late.
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I loved this book about a girl who leaves her friends house later than she should, and meets a bunch of monsters on the way home. The fun part is figuring out what all of the monsters really are (objects in the dark can be very deceiving...), and a great payoff at the end when she apologizes to her dad for being late.
Joshua's (4 year old) favorite part: "the scary parts" and "the parts that were very scary" (yeah, he likes scary things!)
Great book about imagination and responsibility. And, if your kids are anything like my 4 year old, he loves anything scary so this was a hit!
Great book about imagination and responsibility. And, if your kids are anything like my 4 year old, he loves anything scary so this was a hit!
This was a HUGE hit with the 3-5 year olds I read to. The illustrations are so fun and the cliff hanger page turns make it a great book for group reading. I'll be adding this to my personal collection for my own (future) kiddos.
My kids really related to this one because they could relate to everyday objects (i.e. mailbox, planters, etc) looking menacing in the shadows. Sarah's facial expressions are hilarious.
I like how she imagined all these boxes and stuff as giant monsters! I really liked how at the end her dad ended up taking her home instead of being mad.
Does your mind every play tricks on you in the dark? Sarah's does. A cute rhyming book about facing dangers alone.
I read this book back after meeting the author, and now Caleb and I both LOVE this story. It's got such great, imaginative illustrations, and it's so fun to figure out what the monsters really are. Whenever anyone new reads it with Caleb, he always explains right away, "It's not REALLY a spider. It's a grill!" I think he's trying to prevent them from being scared, plus it's really so fun to show the connection. This is one of those stellar illustrated books with a wonderful rhythm. Since Dad com...more
A little girl stays to late at a friends house and has a scary walk home. Lots of fun!
Fun characters who just might scare a little girl until her daddy arrives and makes everything okay.
This is one of my daughters favorite books by Rick Walton. She wants to read it over and over.
Pretty cute, but I don't know why this young girl was wandering around after dark anyway.
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Born and raised in Utah, Walton is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormon Church. He served as a missionary to Brazil from 1976 to 1978, soon after he graduated from high school. Later, at Brigham Young University, he became president of the Brazil Club. In 1980, he graduated from Brigham Young with a bachelor's degree in Spanish and a minor in Portuguese, the lang...more
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