A Book of Spooks and Spectres

by Ruth Manning-Sanders

Book Overview

Twenty-three ghostly tales from around the world written by the award-winning Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by the talented Robin Jacques. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525270450
• ISBN13: 9780525270454
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Age Range: 7 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 6

Customer Reviews

Ruth Manning-Sanders! Hurray!

This is a fine collection of folktales & fairy tales, link by the theme of spooks & spectres. Charmingly illustrated and eay to read by young people, adults won't find it tedious to read to children, either. No tale in this book is too scary, except for the very youngest of toddlers. These tales from around the world are a good introduction to various cultures.

Full title; A Book of Spooks and Spectres

Great stuff here. All of Manning-Sanders' work is brilliant. Highly recommended.

Folk-Tales Retold

These are wonderful stories. Again, the overall tone of the volume is too light for it to be "frightening" for young children. Here is a list of the contents: Old Tommy & the Spectre - England La-lee-lu - USA Football on a Lake - China The Spooks' Party - Russia Spooks a-hunting - Tyrol Yi Chang & the Spectres - Korea Dilly-dilly-doh! - Iceland The Owl - Switzerland The Black Spectre - Italian Tyrol Rubizal & the Miller's Daughter - Bohemia The Spook & the Beer Barrel - Denmark Tummeldink - Schleswig-Holstein Tangletop - Germany The Spook & the Pigs - Bohemia The Spectre Wolf - USA The Inn of the Stone & Spectre - Germany The Little Old Man in the Tree - Yugoslavia Goralasi & the Spectres - Australia The Lake - Estonia Strange Visitors - Korea The Dance of the Spectres - Savoy Heaven Forbid! - Denmark Ha! ha! ha! - Germany