
When The Lights Go Out: Twenty Scary Tales To Tell
Author:
Illustrator:
Margaret Read MacDonald
Roxane Murphy
Some very scary, some quite mild, some really gross. All easy-to-tell. Includes: "Little Buttercup" (Norway); "Wee Little Tyke" (England); "Looking for Home" (England); "Wicked John and the Devil"(Appalachian); "The Great Red Cat"(Scotland); "The Wizard Clip" (West Virginia); "The Tinker and the Ghost"(Spain); "The Conjure Wives"(Appalachia); "Sop Doll"(Appalachia); "The Hobyahs" (Australia); "Old Ben" (Appalachia); "Sam'l" (England); "Cat with the Beckoning Paw"(Japan); "Totanguak"(Eskimo); "Red Silk Handkerchief" (England); "Strange Visitor"(England); "Who Lives in the Skull?" (Russia); "Let's Go on a Ghost Hunt" (American); "Tale of a Black Cat" (American); "Witches' Brew" (US).
Categories
Storytelling: Folktale Collections
Folktale Collections
Holidays
Editions
Paperback
2004
Tokyo: Amu Shobu, Publisher Inc.
Hardcover
1988
H. W. Wilson Company
176 pp
0-8242-0770-X
Paperback
1988
H. W. Wilson Company
176 pp
0-8242-0823-4
Quotes
Children will find these stories easy to learn and read aloud. I predict that those alleged non-readers will read these with relish
Emergency Librarian
20 entertaining folktales that will absorb and chill primary and preschool audiences. ...Selections will be especially useful around Haloween though...it can be used year round.
Booklist, Oct 1, 1988
May help beginning tellers find the confidence to get started.
School Library Journa, August 1989
Awards
Children's Catalog 19th ed.
Children's Core Collection, 2014, 21st ed.
