Very Short Scary Tales to Read Together

by Mary Ann Hoberman, Michael Emberley (Illustrator)

Overview

This fourth book in the New York Times bestselling You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series features spine-tingling tales designed to read aloud—perfect for Halloween or any time you want a fright!

Do you like your mind all jumpy?
Do you like your skin all bumpy?
If you do, then take a look
At the stories in this book!

You've never met witches, zombies, ghosts, or ghouls like these before! With clear, color-coded type and clever illustrations, this fourth You Read to Me, I'll Read to You book from former children's poet laureate Mary Ann Hoberman and award-winning illustrator Michael Emberley is a scary lot of fun, using traditional teaching techniques to invite young children to read along with the text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316043519
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	08/01/2009
Series:	You Read to Me, I'll Read to You Series , #4
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Mary Ann Hoberman is a children's poet and author. The former children's poet laureate, she is also a National Book Award recipient. She has published over forty books for children.

Editorial Reviews

Hoberman and Emberley return with their fourth collaboration of short read-aloud stories in verse, this time a baker's dozen of goofy-scary original ones. The author's note (aimed at adults) and the introductory poem (aimed at readers, with illustrations of two youngsters in monster masks) proffer the book's premise: These stories, ideal for reading aloud, use spooky settings to express the joys of reading. Each poem spans two facing pages and, at 9"x12", the book is large enough to accommodate multiple small illustrations that retell each story pictorially. Subjects cover Halloween mainstays like "The Skeleton," "Trick or Treat" and "The Witch and the Broomstick," as well as a variety of other eerie entities. In "The Mummy," for example, two children in miners helmets gleefully unwrap a figure in a coffin, and get a surprise. A boy on a bicycle helps "The Ghoul" learn to read. Text throughout comes in multiple pastel shades, nicely matching Emberley's impish illustrations, in pencil, watercolor and pastels. Nifty. (Picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews