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Hauntings: Ghosts and Ghouls from Around the World
A collection of folk tales from around the world featuring ghosts, witches, and monsters
123 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1991
About the author
Margaret Hodges
72 books55 followersMargaret "Peggy" Hodges was an American writer of books for children.
She was born Sarah Margaret Moore in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, under Elizabeth Nesbitt, and she volunteered as a storyteller at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote and published more than 40 books.
Her 1985 book Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, won the Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
She was a professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she retired in 1976.
Hodges died of heart disease on December 13, 2005 at her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. She suffered from Parkinson's disease.
She wrote her stories on a notepad or a typewriter. "I need good ideas, and they don't come out of machines," she once said.
She was born Sarah Margaret Moore in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, under Elizabeth Nesbitt, and she volunteered as a storyteller at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote and published more than 40 books.
Her 1985 book Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, won the Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
She was a professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she retired in 1976.
Hodges died of heart disease on December 13, 2005 at her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. She suffered from Parkinson's disease.
She wrote her stories on a notepad or a typewriter. "I need good ideas, and they don't come out of machines," she once said.
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April 12, 2021
16 stories in 128 pages. Too short for any complexity. Why have children's tales all become idiotically Disney-fied? Maybe if we grew up with a bit of irony, shading, subtlety we wouldn't be expecting simple answers to our complicated problems?
And, unsurprisingly, too many evil women. 95% of violent crime is perpetrated by men.
I need me some Grimm, or Andersen. Yeah, the Little Match Girl dies. Poverty, inequity, starvation suck. And children see everything.
And, unsurprisingly, too many evil women. 95% of violent crime is perpetrated by men.
I need me some Grimm, or Andersen. Yeah, the Little Match Girl dies. Poverty, inequity, starvation suck. And children see everything.
July 13, 2024
I liked it! I'm a simple gal who likes folksy stories.
May 16, 2016
These are familiar, run-of-the-mill stories, but Hodges does a good job of both representing a variety of world cultures and changing her voice to variously suit them. The illustrations, though, are what really make this book stand out. Beautiful, haunting line drawings that sit with the reader far longer than the stories themselves.
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