The Devil Rides With Me and Other Stories

by Alfred Slote

A young skier with an intense will to win gets Devilish help on a dangerous mountain.... An exploited "kid" sister takes her revenge by means of a worm with miraculous powers.... A young saxophone player from Detroit plays a strange and ghostly gig in Hamelin Town.... A college freshman tired of being young discovers how to age overnight.... A young artist paints pictures that foretell the future.... A soft-hearted robot hunts dinosaurs on Planet Omega III.

These rare stories will ensnare young readers in a marvelous web of imagination, humor, and sinister twists.

3 - THE DEVIL RIDES WITH ME
21 - THANKS, MR. DIVIDO
35 - WILLIE SAXOPHONE
47 - ME AND A FROG NAMED RED
59 - THE PICTURE PAINTER
69 - THE LAST DINOSAUR

83 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1980

About the author

Alfred Slote (born September 11, 1926) is a children's author known for his numerous sports and space novels. His writing has been described as "making space travel seem as ordinary as piling in the family wagon for a jaunt to McDonald's". Slote's 1991 novel Finding Buck McHenry was adapted into a 2000 television film. He currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

You get 6 stories here and every single one of them was fantastic! The Devil Rides With Me is about skiing, Thanks Mr Divido about worms for fishing, Willie Saxophone a brilliant new version of the Pied Piper, Me and a Frog Named Red about aging, The Picture Painter is about seeing the future in a painting and last and least The Last Dinosaur is about a robot and hunting. Absolutely entertaining, a good shot of scifi inside, page turning, good twist... what can I say, this is the way stories have to be. Would also have liked that collection as a boy. What a find. Highly recommended!