Writing just a paragraph or a page, some of the best-loved kids' book authors each contributed a compact creepy tale to this collection. The stories are so short, you can always read just one more."Only have a minute to be scared? This is your book. And if any such child is a reluctant reader, this book is exactly what's needed to draw them in. This book is absolutely perfect for those kids. However, I know from working in public libraries that there are lots of kids who love scary stories and want more of them. If I do ever get a chance to read some of these stories to a class of schoolchildren, I will have to be a little careful which ones I choose. Not the ones like I was who scare easily. Since they are so short, the stories tend to be the sort of thing you'd find in The Twilight Zone, but they all tend toward the scary side, especially if you think about them too long! Especially the first story, by Lemony Snicket, about the quiet man who watches you every time you sleep. Now, they make me laugh with their delightful creepiness. I have to admit, most of these stories would have scared me too much when I was a little girl with an overactive imagination. It was perfect for reading at traffic lights, and would also be perfect for reading to a class of schoolchildren to get them interested in the library. The many, many stories in here, by stellar children's authors, are really short enough to be read in half a minute. Well, except the parts I read aloud to people when I first checked out the book. I read this book entirely waiting at traffic lights.
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