You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Scary Tales to Read Together (Hardcover)

by Mary Ann Hoberman (Author), Michael Emberley (Illustrator)

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 3—This fourth installment in the innovative series invites young readers once again to share its whimsical vignettes (written in dialogue) with a peer or an adult. Perfect for Halloween, the stories all revolve around monsters, goblins, zombies, and ghouls. The selections are short, each running across a spread, and "voices" are color-coded and carefully positioned on the page so readers know when it's their turn. Despite its title, the book is hardly engineered to keep any child awake at night. Emberley's illustrations depict friendly fiends with lopsided smiles and silly features, and the fear/gross-out factors in the text are almost nonexistent. A solid choice for most libraries.—Catherine Threadgill, Charleston County Public Library, SC
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From Booklist
The fourth uproarious poetry picture book in Hoberman and Emberley's popular You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series continues the pattern of simple, rhyming, illustrated stories for two voices. This time, though, the stories are not playful, fractured versions of old rhymes and tales; they are new shivery tales to read together. The clear words with gorgeously gruesome, comic-style pictures tell of wild action and monster characters as lurid as they come--ghouls, ogres, zombies, skeletons, phantoms--all of them readers. In one double-page spread, the ghost and the mouse living together in a house are enemies, scared of each other, until they make up and read together. One spread is "Trick or Treat," and of course, this collection is a must for Halloween sharing. Gory rhymes with story. Hazel Rochman
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers; Library Binding edition (August 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316017337
• ISBN-13: 978-0316017336
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #76,766 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You Read to Me Series, August 23, 2007

By	Diane Chapman - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

KIDS LOVE THESE BOOKS. THEY ARE READ OVER AND OVER. ADULTS LOVE THEM TOO. A CAN'T MISS ITEM.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Review By: Rayissa, February 11, 2008

A Kid's Review

Do you like mummies, witches, dimosaurs, goblins, gremlis, demons, devils, skeletons, ghosts, dragons, ghouls, ogre, giants, zombies, or even phantoms? If you do then you will like " You Read to Me, I;ll Read to You". In this story the author Mary Ann Hoberman tells about different fariy tale creachters. Like when she told about the dinosaur, the dinisaur wanted to stay in a house. But then there are some problems. The illustrator Michael Emberley's pictures are right with the writing. And if you lide poems this book is the one for you. For all ages!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Even I don't mind re-reading this book, November 8, 2007

By	Lost between the lines "candycain" (Connecticut United States) - See all my reviews

My daughter can't get enough of this book. She loves the silliness of the stories and gets to listen to my silly voices for the characters. I'll be looking for more like this. She even reads it to her little cousin.