Author : Jess Black
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 174274821X
An adventure series based around helping animals big and small, fully endorsed by the RSPCA. Visitors at a neighbourhood guesthouse have been complaining about spooky noises at night. The owners are worried. Is it ghosts? It’s starting to affect business, but what can they do to stop it? Cassie and Ben decide to engage in a bit of late-night detective work to uncover the source of the ghostly disturbance.
Author : Geronimo Stilton
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545414792
Breakout star Creepella von Cacklefur is back in another fur-raising adventure! Creepella's father, Boris von Cacklefur, is a finalist in the Fright Night contest -- Gloomeria's prestigious poetry competition. If he can perform the most terrifying rhymes, he will be crowned Fright Night Idol! But midway through the contest, Boris mysteriously disappears. Can Creepella and her friends find him before the final round?
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Publisher :
Page : 1744 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Patents
ISBN :
Author : Becky Siegel Spratford
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838908716
It's a dark and scary world. Pans are tabid. Blood, guts, and gore are the norm. Welcome to the horror genre. Horror classics have been scaring people for years. Nowadays, who doesn't know about Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Dean Koontz? Profiled in a special section, the Big Three have turned horror into best-sellers. For all the horror fans that haunt your library, this is the must-have guide. Readers' advisors and reference librarians will appreciate the key tools provided to expand upon this genre, including listings of top books, authors, and award winners within eleven horror subgenres - like mummies, biomedical, monsters, and splatterpunk. Clear descriptions of characteristics within subgenres are provided throughout. To further help you engage new renders, expert horror mavens Spratford and Clausen draw a savvy connection between film and horror as a potent reminder that the scariest movies have been adapted from novels. Their classic and contemporary recommendations like Rebecca, The Shining, and Rosemary's Baby reinforce activities between readers' advisors and library programming and open up the (cellar) door for further patron involvement. Readers' advisors and referen
Author : Claudine Burnett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1665558806
Learn about: • An opossum who enjoyed X-rated movies. • A canine thief with an appetite for eggs. • A man who lost out on $38,000 in valuable pearls because he liked his oysters cooked instead of raw. • Strange events and creatures off the California coast. • A recipe for Pius IV’s favorite dish — frog livers. • A statewide event where California school children were asked to kill as many ground squirrels as possible, verifying their kills by bringing the tails to school! These are but a few of the stories largely centered around Long Beach, California, which have appeared over the past 130 years. Most have remained forgotten, until now. How much is true and how much “tongue in cheek” I will leave up to the reader to decide. In any case, they are they are fun, humorous and sure to entertain.
Author : H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Children's literature
ISBN :
The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.
Author : James Francis, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786470887
This book chronicles the American horror film genre in its development of remakes from the 1930s into the 21st century. Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) is investigated as the watershed moment when the genre opened its doors to the possibility that any horror movie--classic, modern, B-movie, and more--might be remade for contemporary audiences. Staple horror franchises--Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th (1980), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)--are highlighted along with their remake counterparts in order to illustrate how the genre has embraced a phenomenon of remake productions and what the future of horror holds for American cinema. More than 25 original films, their remakes, and the movies they influenced are presented in detailed discussions throughout the text.
Author : Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1657 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1440834350
Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
Author : Albert James Arnold
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813916460
The 1992 Quincentennial of the encounter between the New World and the Old resulted in a veritable culture war- an extreme polarization of hardened ideological positions on different ideas of America. Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows brings a fresh perspective to the confusing question of American identity. It clears the minefields laid by the generals commanding the opposing camps, while demonstrating that both sides have been primarily interested in protecting and defending an idea of "Americanness" that cannot resist scrutiny. Some of the leading international scholars in anthropology, comparative literature, and history of the Americas show convincingly in this book that contacts between and among peoples and ethnic groups have, since early colonial times, produced new- and typically American- cultural forms throughout the hemisphere. Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows will appeal to the general reader and will attract a wide readership in folklore and cultural anthropology as well as in Caribbean and Latin American studies, comparative literature, and history.
Author : Melanie Moye
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1480845426
Leo, a Furbearer, didnt have a privileged upbringing, but hes always been cunning and strong. Though this tabby came from humble beginnings, hes found a plush home with Eunice and her family of E-Yeows, the creatures who walk around on two paws and have fur only on the tops of their heads. Then, one day, through a near-fatal accident, Leo gains an aptitude that borders on the supernatural. But, his powers of understanding and self-expression are severely tested when he is forced to make it in a wolfer-eat-wolfer world. Hardened and battle-scarred, he walks a fine line between being tough and respected by his peers and being cruel and hated by his enemies. One Tough Cat shares the story of Leos hilarious journey as he finds love and harmony in unexpected places and realizes that to be happy, a tomcat doesnt necessarily have to leave home.
