Stories for Around the Campfire [Paperback]

Ray Harriot (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0961765305 | ISBN-13: 978-0961765309 | Publication Date: December 1986

Complete guide to telling campfire stories.

A collection of Boy Scout oriented campfire stories for telling around a campfire. Where else? There are 24 stories -- about 10 that are geared to younger children and 14 that are for older children.

This book has been a best selling Boy Scout book for almost 25 years.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Campfire Pub Co (December 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0961765305
• ISBN-13: 978-0961765309
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #763,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun-filled, and scary read!, May 11, 2000

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Mike Welle (Folly Beach, SC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stories for Around the Campfire (Paperback)

If you are interested in camping out in the woods, and telling ghost stories this book would be a great read. My favorite tale is "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf" which is a take-off of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" story. Harriot is effective at being both funny and scary with this story whose ending is reminiscent of shaggy-dog stories. The second half of the book has some pretty frightening works, like "A Night at the Delany House", which is a creepy tale about two kids who are dared to stare at a haunted house for a night. Kids will love it, especially the funny ones.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A handy Scout resource!, November 16, 2003

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Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stories for Around the Campfire (Paperback)

This handy little book was written for the Boy Scout leader, to give you stories to tell around the campfire, as well as tips on how to tell them. There are twenty-four stories here: ten funny stories, and fourteen scary ones. Couple all that with the Telling A Story chapter, and you have got yourself a handy Scout resource!

Now that I am going on some Scout campouts, I have found the desire to be able to tell some "ghost" stores at the campfire, and this book (which is NOT an official BSA publication, by the way) is a nice thing to have. The stories are great, but I must say that their length at six pages does rather tax my memorizing abilities. That said, though, I did like this book, and highly recommend it.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Campfire Book!, August 27, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Stories for Around the Campfire (Paperback)

Fun book to have with you when camping with kids! A few stories may not suit children too young, but otherwise, light and great around a campfire!