Ghoulies, ghosties, and long-leggedy beasties inhabit these 30 chilling tales gathered from around the world. Creepy classic and contemporary stori...
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Nov 08, 2011
Asya
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This is a wonderful collection of some not so scary stories from around the world. The stories in this book are an easy ten minute read that is a welcome exploration of what is thought to be scary in other cultures. Often there are similarities to American folktales. I read this and the three sequels to my children as part of our reading time before bed. It gave us the opportunity to discuss different fears that people have about the unknown. The writing style is straight forward and somewhat co
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Nov 10, 2011
Angie
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A collection of familiar folktales gathered from around the world and retold with young readers in mind.
I checked this book out because one of the stories, Tailypo, is -being from my home state of WV- a tale *smile* that I grew up with.
The author took the liberty to rework some of the stories - he admitted to doing so in the introduction. He also claimed to display/preserve the local coloring of these familiar tales, while editing to make the stories easier to understand.
He took all the regional More...
I checked this book out because one of the stories, Tailypo, is -being from my home state of WV- a tale *smile* that I grew up with.
The author took the liberty to rework some of the stories - he admitted to doing so in the introduction. He also claimed to display/preserve the local coloring of these familiar tales, while editing to make the stories easier to understand.
He took all the regional More...
Jul 03, 2010
Tanya
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This short story book by Robert D. San Souci would not keep anyone over age of 8 entertained. It is 30 stories ranging from 2-10 pages long. They were very tame and predictable. I could recognize the stories that these came from for the most part. The best part of the book is that it listed the geographic origin for the stories which made me want to research the real, unwatered down story. There is also a Notes on Sources section which, for me, was more entertaining than the whole book. It shoul
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Sep 25, 2009
Charles
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If you like books that are scary try Short and Shivery. It has 30 short tales and some of them are kind of cool. They make me think that I’m in the book. I wonder what I would do if I was in the situation. Some of the things that happen in the book are so strange. Like stuff I would never think of and that’s the things I think are cool. Like theirs vampires, ghost, skeletons, ground that eat people, graveyards, zombies and much more. There’s a series of these books. Theirs Short and Shivery, Mor
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Nov 15, 2011
Caro
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Short and Shivery was a pretty good book. I thought is was good, but it a wasn't page turning, no stopping, gotta read it kind of book. It was more short, simple and to the point. I could see reading this at a campfire family fright thing (maybe no really young ones though). I liked learning the superstitions and the fact that the stories told where they originated from. I think it was kind of ironic that the US had only ghost stories, I don't really know how that reflects on us. Anyway, it was
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May 29, 2009
Zane
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This book i am reading is not based on one character but multiple characters with multiple plots and settings. One story is where there are a group of people on Windigo Island where the Great Windigo lives. The captain of the crew does not believe in gohsts so he boldly steps into the icy cavern of the howling wind and the shrieking windigo never to be seen again.
Jan 29, 2012
Skylar
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My kids (age 4 and 7) and I listened to this on the commute to and from my daughter’s school. They seemed to enjoy them, and I did too – they take me back to the day of exchanging scary camp fire stories with friends. It’s a multicultural collection, but not just for the sake of being multicultural. It’s an eclectic selection of notable folktales - not so much scary as creepy - from around the world. The reader could have been more interesting, but he’s not bad. I agree with my daughter that the
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Sep 10, 2010
Jana
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They title basically said it was scary but I've read Fairy Tales that were scarier.
Sep 18, 2008
Coleman
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This was well written and enjoyable even though the target reader is probably juvenile. The stories are folk tales from around the world.
Jan 29, 2012
Donald
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San Souci has collected tales from around the world and assembled them here. Not all of them are great but some are pretty good.
Jun 23, 2010
Kaylynn
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Some of these gave me goosebumps. At least one I had heard before. But I enjoyed reading them.
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