The Ghost of Skinny Jack
by Astrid Lindgren 
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After visiting their grandmother and hearing a ghost story, a brother and sister take a scary walk through the woods.Tags
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Well told, but not to my taste. Told in first person, from the perspective of the little girl, as if she's grown and relating memories to her children or grandchildren. I'm not too sure about the illustrations, in particular the dark hollow eyes of Dad .
Like in all other books written by Astrid Lindgren, the setting is in a rural area of Sweden, probably the district in which the author herself grew up in. The story is about siblings who go frequently to their grandmother's house to listen to her fabulous ghost stories. They love it, but nevertheless they are scared afterwards. The book is written in a very nice way, but if I were a child I would have been scared like the protagonist of the book. Especially if i had to go home on my own in the forest like these two children did. As I child I never liked ghost stories, because I never could sleep well afterwards, nor could I walk home alone from anywhere. And this has not changed up to know.
Like in many of Lindgrens' books, all the show more characters belong to a family. One can argue that the author herself had a "perfect" family just like in her books. If it is autobiographical, and it is definitely, Lindgren had a picture-perfect family, which to my opinion do not exist. show less
Like in many of Lindgrens' books, all the show more characters belong to a family. One can argue that the author herself had a "perfect" family just like in her books. If it is autobiographical, and it is definitely, Lindgren had a picture-perfect family, which to my opinion do not exist. show less
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Astrid Lindgren: November 7, 1907 - January 28, 2002 There are few children's authors more famous than Astrid Lindgren, creator of the feisty, legendary heroine, Pippi Longstocking. Lindgren was born on November 14, 1907, in Sweden. Her work has been acclaimed with many prestigious awards, among them the Hans Christian Andersen Medal (1958), the show more Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1978), and the International Book Award (1993). This truly internationally known author was the recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Medal and has been honored repeatedly in her native Sweden. There is a bronze statue of her in a Stockholm park. Her picture is on a postage stamp. The "World of Astrid Lindgren" is a theme park featuring the wholesome characters of her books. The annual children's literature award is known as the Astrid Lindgren Prize. The inspiration for this long and illustrious career, spanning five decades, is the author's own childhood. Her memories - of free and often wild play with her brothers and sister, of loving parents, of a close-knit farm community, of reading about heroines like Pollyanna and Anne of Green Gables - became the foundations of her books. Lindgren has said, "I write to amuse the child within me, and I can only hope that in this way other children as well can have a little fun." Lindgren amused her own children by telling them stories. Her daughter, Karin, named Pippi Longstocking, and the first written story was given to Karin as a birthday gift. The next year, 1945, Pippi Longstocking won a best children's book competition and Lindgren began writing the perennially child-pleasing stories that make up her enormous body of work, some of which are the series based on "Children of Noisy Village", the fable "The Tomten", the rambunctious "Karlson-On-the-Roof", the irrepressible"Lotta on Troublemaker Street" , the controversial "The Brothers Lionheart", and the unforgettable, wildly funny superheroine, Pippi, was featured in other books and became a star of stage, screen and television. Lindgren has been called the world's most read author of children's books. She is hailed as the third most translated children's book author after H.C. Andersen and the Grimm brothers. Her impact on the world of children's literature is immeasurable. Astrid Lindgren died in her sleep, in her home in Sweden on January 28, 2002 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Astrid Lindgren has a Legacy Library. Legacy libraries are the personal libraries of famous readers, entered by LibraryThing members from the Legacy Libraries group.
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- 1986
- Disambiguation notice
- Originally published in Swedish as "Skinn Skerping hemskast av alla spöken i Småland" (1986); translated to English as "The Ghost of Skinny Jack" by Y. Hooker (1987); translated to Finnish as "Hirmu-Niilo, Smoolannin kamali... (show all)n kummitus" (roughly: "Hurricane Nikolaus, Smaland's Worst Ghost") (1987)
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- Children's Books, Picture Books
- DDC/MDS
- 839.78 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Swedish literature Swedish miscellany
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- PZ7 .L6585 .G — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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