Among the books it discusses are:
- Where the wild things are (Maurice Sendak)
- Hide and seek (Irini Savvides)
- John Brown, Rose and the midnight cat (Jenny Wagner, ill. Ron Brooks)
- Old Pig (Margaret Wild, ill. Ron Brooks)
- Clinton Gregory's secret (Bruce Whatley)
- One dragon's dream (Peter Pavey)
- Puffling (Margaret Wild, ill. Julie Vivas)
I would of course point you in the direction of this article online, but I can't find it on the SMH website (by all means leave the link as a comment if you can find it). Figured that by mentioning it here, if you still have a paper copy of the Saturday paper you can track it down, if you wish.
A quote:
Sendak's book is universally loved for its expression and subsequent taming of the beast in us all that can be unleashed by primal fears. Taming the beast of big business - which neutralises anything that cannot be controlled such as imagination or death, because the product is more palatably consumed - may be more challenging.
To anyone of imagination (children, for instance), being alive and the inevitability of death has its terrifying side. However, it is nowhere near as frightening as the Orwellian drive to brainwash us into believing consuming pap will somehow make us invincible.
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My Stage 1 students are doing the Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge book rap at the moment and were fascinated by Mr Hosking, "who told scary stories", and his hand gestures (as suggested by the illustrations).
I ended up doing an impromptu retelling of the traditional poem, "The Hairy Poem" (aka "Tailypo" depending on sources), desperately trying to remember it, having performed it in a travelling poetry show at teachers college waybackwhen. I did the whole voice-getting-quieter, bit, drew them in , drew them in (rather like playing a fish) and then... scared the daylights out of them!
No doubt about it, little kids still love being scared, if only for a minute. (Then I started to worry they be trying to scare each other out in the playground, and I'd end up being blamed.)
Hello,
I’ve started an anthology of scary children's stories on WEbook.com, a user-generated
book publisher. I read your posting and I thought you might be interested
in contributing. The purpose of the book is to compile an anthology of short stories that revolve around a variety of haunted objects. The stories can be anywhere from downright terrifying to absolutely hilarious.
If you’re interested in participating please check out webook.com (the title of the project is “Haunted: A Collection Of Short Stories”), or you can contact writers@webook.com.
Best,
Tahra
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