More than fifteen tales from the oral tradition probably originally recorded in the 1920s and 1930s such as "The Haunted Stateroom","Black Tom", and "The Ghost in the Back Seat".
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Grade 3-6-Some stories lose too much of the essence that makes them ghostly or truly scary when they are diluted and abridged for younger readers. This is true for this collection of tales. Haskins acknowledges his sources, and they and others remain the best for this genre. Harry Middleton Hyatt's Hoodoo-Conjuration-Witchcraft-Rootwork (Western, 1970-74; o.p.) and Daryle Dance Cumber's Shuckin' and Jivin' (Indiana Univ., 1978) are adult in tone and flavor; therefore, choosing selections from them for a younger audience requires expurgating certain expressions, dialect, or haunting repetitious chants. Most children know scarier versions of the "Vanishing Hitchhiker" than Haskins's "Ghost in the Backseat." Patricia McKissack's The Dark-Thirty (Knopf, 1992) is an excellent collection of good ghost stories for children to read or storytellers to reference.
Marie Wright, University Library, Indianapolis, IN
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Marie Wright, University Library, Indianapolis, IN
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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WHEN THE SUPERNATURAL IS THE NORM,
This review is from: Moaning Bones: African American Ghost Stories (Hardcover)
This is a collection of African-American ghost stories presented for readers ages 7 and up. Appropriately ghostly illustrations are well done by Felicia Marshall.
Intended to tingle spines and elicit shivers the stories are filled with other worldy experiences - a deserted mansion inhabited only by waltzing ghostly dancers, an empty rocking chair that rocks, and rocks, and rocks. Youngsters who enjoy the intentionally eerie will take to these stories and may well want to repeat some of them around a campfire.
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