Did You Say Ghosts? - Hardcover

Michelson, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0027669157 ISBN 13: 9780027669152

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1993

Synopsis

A spine-tingling but humorous cumulative tale in rhyme--populated by a ghoulish gallery of spooky creatures--follows the bedtime adventures of a small child who worries about all the things that go bump in the night.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Michelson is a prize-winning poet whose works appear in numerous anthologies, including The Norton Introduction to Poetry and Blood to Remember: American Poets of the Holocaust. His collection Tap Dancing for the Relatives was praised by Elie Wiesel as "deeply moving." He is also the author of the children's book, Grandpa's Gamble (Cavendish Children's Books, 1999). The owner of R. Michelson Galleries, he lives with his family in Amherst, Massachusetts

From Publishers Weekly:

In this good-humored picture book, a parent pounces on a child's fear of the things that go bump in the night and transforms it into a game. The narrator, in verse, banteringly dismisses the existence of ghosts, then adds "the werewolves' bay-- / AIYAAA . . . / would scare a ghost away!" At which point all dread of ghosts cedes to a sudden terror of werewolves ("Did you say werewolves?"). Each new apparition is quickly supplanted by another, even more frightening entity. The rhyme hurtles along, full of glee, punctuated by the child's loud shouts of dread-filled surprise. But it is obvious that the child is now delighted by each arrival, egging on the adult for the next in the gallery of ghouls. Oversize watercolors, which combine an effective mix of somber grays and splashes of bright paint, are both eerie and exotic, and convey--spiritedly--the giddy intrigue of the text. Ages 6-up.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0027669157
• ISBN 13: 9780027669152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 24
• Illustrator: Baskin Leonard