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- ISBN
- 0192880144
- EAN
- 9780192880147
- Date of Publication
- 1996-10-03
- Publication Name
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- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- A Century of Children's Ghost Stories: Tales of Dread and Delight
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0192880144
ISBN-13
9780192880147
eBay Product ID (ePID)
282440
Product Key Features
Book Title
Century of Children's Ghost Stories : Tales of Dread and Delight
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Topic
Literary Criticism & Collections, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Ghost Stories, Short Stories
Features
Reprint
Genre
Juvenile Fiction, Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-183531
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
'Here are tales to send a tingle up the spine by some of the finest children's writers of the century.'The Oxford Times, 'for the young in spirit of all ages, there's nothing to outspook A Cetury of Children's Ghost Stories - spine-tingling tales of dread and delight assembled by Philippa Pearce, herself an award-winning children's writer.'Glasgow Herald, 'There is something physical about the experience of reading or listening to a ghost story; the shiver, the huddle together, the scream. .. [This is] a collection of forty of the best.'TES
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
[Fic]
Edition Description
Reprint
Table Of Content
A School StoryOut of the SeaManfred's Three WishesThe Light in the DormitoryMiss JemimaJohnny DoubleElsie Piddock Skips on her SleepThe Tiger-Skin RugElisabeth the Cow GhostGeorgieAll in the Night's WorkRichardThe Wee GhostieThe Haunted TrailerThe House that Lacked a BogleThe January QueenBrownieThe Ghost of Top WoodThe Old White Ghost and the Old Grey GrandadLooking for a GhostAt the River-GatesSombody lives in the Nobody HouseThe Ghostly Goat of GlaramaraShe was Afraid of UpstairsThe Extinguished LightsWho's a Pretty Boy, Then?Uninvited GhostsThe BrideIvorSiren SongThe TowerThe GuitaristA Grave MisunderstandingGhost TroubleSpirits of the RailwayMany Happy Returns!The BeachAcross the FieldsThe ClearingThe Burning Baby
Synopsis
For this spine-tingling new collection, Philippa Pearce, herself an award-winning children's writer, has brought together 40 ghost stories to captivate children and adults alike. Beginning with M. R. James's 'A School Story', and including 'The Ghostly Goat of Glaramar' and 'The House that Lacked a Bogle', this anthology presents tales by outstanding children's authors: amongst them Eleanor Farjeon, Alison Uttley, Jan Mark, Penelope Lively, Leon Garfield, and Tim Wynne-Jones., As a genre, children's ghost writing is a relative newcomer to the literary field. While children's literature has flourished for over 200 years, supernatural fiction for the young has really only come into its own in the twentieth century. Dread and Delight, a spine-tingling collection of 40 ghost stories written for children over the course of the present century, charts its development from its roots in the writings of authors such as M. R. James, A. C. Benson and Walter de la Mare, to renowned modern authors including Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jan Mark, Leon Garfield, and Penelope Lively. Compiled by the award-winning novelist Phillipa Pearce, author of the classic children's book Tom's Midnight Garden, these stories will captivate adults and children alike. Pearce includes two previously unpublished stories by Lucy Boston and Robert Westall, and a full introduction and lively notes on the authors. The collected stories represent an engaging variety--drawn from all over the English-speaking world, including America, India, and the Caribbean as well as Great Britain. Treating the supernatural with humor and whimsy, as well as with a proper respect, the tales all succeed brilliantly in creating an atmosphere of suspense or unease in order to produce the pleasurable tingle of anticipation that children relish as much as adults. As Phillip Pearce writes in her introduction, "fear becomes awe and wonder...the delight is in the dread.", A collection of spine-tingling ghost stories.. Philippa Pearce, herself an award-winning children's writer, has brought together forty ghost storie s to captivate children and adults alike., As a genre, children's ghost writing is a relative newcomer to the literary field. While children's literature has flourished for over 200 years, supernatural fiction for the young has really only come into its own in the twentieth century. Dread and Delight , a spine-tingling collection of 40 ghost stories written for children over the course of the present century, charts its development from its roots in the writings of authors such as M. R. James, A. C. Benson and Walter de la Mare, to renowned modern authors including Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jan Mark, Leon Garfield, and Penelope Lively. Compiled by the award-winning novelist Phillipa Pearce, author of the classic children's book Tom's Midnight Garden , these stories will captivate adults and children alike. Pearce includes two previously unpublished stories by Lucy Boston and Robert Westall, and a full introduction and lively notes on the authors. The collected stories represent an engaging variety--drawn from all over the English-speaking world, including America, India, and the Caribbean as well as Great Britain. Treating the supernatural with humor and whimsy, as well as with a proper respect, the tales all succeed brilliantly in creating an atmosphere of suspense or unease in order to produce the pleasurable tingle of anticipation that children relish as much as adults. As Phillip Pearce writes in her introduction, "fear becomes awe and wonder...the delight is in the dread."
LC Classification Number
PZ5.D7475 1996
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