A Newbery Halloween
by Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)
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A collection of short stories with a Halloween theme, by such Newbery Award-winning authors as E.L. Konigsburg, Beverly Cleary, Virginia Hamilton, and Paul Fleischman.Tags
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This was a great read for my favorite time of the year. Some really good stories, some okay, and some meh. But it was fun!
Substance: The stories were interesting but not outstanding. Some were chapters taken from books, others were stand-alone stories. Most matched what you would expect from the authors. Contents by Beverly Cleary, Elizabeth Coatsworth, E. L. Konigsburg, Eleanor Estes, Madeleine L'Engle, Arthur Bowie Chrisman, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Charles J. Finger, Paul Fleischman, Virginia Hamilton.
I only liked a few of the stories included here... The rest I found mediocre, and sometimes even confusing.
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Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 - June 25, 2011) was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books; he was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Some of his anthologies included: Past Imperfect (2001), Once Upon a Galaxy show more (2002) and Sirius: The Dog Star (2004). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Newbery Halloween
- Original publication date
- 1991; 1993
- First words
- INTRODUCTION: Every year come Christmastime, as I sang in the junior choir at St. Stephen's Church, the alternate verses to "Deck the Halls" intrigued me.
Introduction: The assortment of ghosts, witches, and various pranksters are gathered here for a common purpose: to scare the wits out of us - deliciously; to make us shiver and shriek; and, above all, to delight us. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)RAMONA, THE SHEEP SUIT, AND . . .: She wiggled her seat to make her tail wag.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But as time mellowed people's memories, they began looking back at 1938, with a chuckle, and speaking of it as the year Halloween happened one day early.
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.010833 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Short fiction
- LCC
- PZ5 .N395 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 172
- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.29)
- Languages
- English, Italian
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 1
