Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends

by Bill Mooney, David Holt, David Holt

Book Overview

Winner of the Garden State Teen Book Award & 2002 YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

Hey, did you hear the one about the lady who had her beehive hairdo sprayed so hard that spiders started to nest in it? Of course you did, it happened to your next-door neighbor's cousin. Or was it your cousin's next-door neighbor? Folktales are not the exclusive domain of the past. They're alive and kicking in urban legends, those stories that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874835259
• ISBN13: 9780874835250
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: August House Publishers
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 1 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 9

Customer Reviews

Easy to Read Source for Urban Legends

All those fun stories that you grew up with as a kid are here in this book. The next time you complain about all these new legends on the Internet, remember we all told the one about the bloody hook attached to the car door. And you know that story about the roach eggs in the taco meat made your skin crawl, no pun intended. This book is too much fun and a good source for nostalgic reflection or for retelling to all those people who you just want to scare a little! ...

Told With a Twist of Lemon!

This book does not explore anything new in terms of presenting new Urban Legends. But, it does dramatize well known legends giving them a new flare. Very good book.

Hilarious!

I laughed and laughed and laughed some more. My teenagers love this book, too (I think that's a first--Mom and the kids liking the same book!). Yeah, I've heard some of the stories before, but that doesn't make them any less funny. And the illustrations are a hoot, too. Good fun all around!

Storyteller's collection

This book makes for highly amusing browsing. It is full of ironic anecdotes that have been widely circulated by word of mouth or even in some newspapers as possibly being true. Rather than analyze the origins of these false tales, this book presents them in all their humor, horror, and glory. A few of them are gross, but many provoke laughter.

Spiders in the Hairdo was fantastic!

What can I say? Spiders in the Hairdo is the most entertaining and easy-to-read book related to modern folklore. From frighteners like, "The Belle of Biloxi" to laugh-inducers like "Attention K-Mart Shoppers", readers of this book will be entertained from the first word to the last word.