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1. An awesome intro to classic horror! The Big Book of Horror: 21 Tales to Make you Tremble
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By: Kinderscares, on 5/22/2010
Blog: KinderScares (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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The Big Book of Horror: 21 Tales to Make You Tremble

Adapted by Alissa Heyman

Illustrated by Pedro Rodriguez

Sterling Publishing, 2006

ISBN: 978-1-4027-3860-9


Collections of 'spooky' short stories for middle-grade readers are easy to come by, but you don't frequently happen upon a collection for kids that features 19th century classic horror writers.  We were unbelievably excited to find this volume while cruising our local bookstore!


The book features 21 classic horror stories by a plethora of famous writers: The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe; The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft; The Vampire by John William Polidori; and The Hand by Guy de Maupassant, to name just a few.  The tales are separated into four sections: Death,  Disease and Madness, The Power of the Mind, and Evil. 


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2. The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm
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By: Kinderscares, on 3/22/2010
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The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm
Translated by Lore Segal and Randall Jarrell
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak






If your children's literature shelf is somehow lacking any Grimm brothers' fairy tales, this may be the book for you.  Originally published in 1973, it was re-released for its thirtieth anniversary in 2003.  The 27 tales selected for the collection contain some of the most famous of Grimm's fairy tales, and some of the most obscure and unknown.  The translations are said to be extremely faithful to the original German text, and the black and white illustrations are done by the famed author/illustrator Maurice Sendak (creator of Where the Wild Things Are).  This is a great edition for Grimm-lovers or for newbies who are looking to fill that gap on the shelf but aren't ready to commit to the much heftier complete works.  Check it out!

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3. A worthy question, answered - Dracula for kids
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By: Kinderscares, on 2/10/2010
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We were asked recently to suggest a version of Dracula for kids - no easy feat if you're interested in the original story and not a Hollywood approximation.


After some research, we suggest checking out the following two versions geared for younger readers:


and

The Great Illustrated Classics version

The links lead to their Amazon pages so you can take a closer look.  Both are abridged and told in more modern English than the original, and geared toward the 8-12 crowd.  Introduce kids to the classic tale without all the modifications so common in children's literature!

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