Moaning Bones: African-American Ghost Stories

By James Haskins

Book Overview

More than fifteen tales from the oral tradition probably originally recorded in the 1920s and 1930s such as "The Haunted Stateroom","Black Tom", and "The Ghost in the Back Seat". This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688160212
• ISBN13: 9780688160210
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Lothrop Lee & Shepard
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

WHEN THE SUPERNATURAL IS THE NORM

This is a collection of African-American ghost stories presented for readers ages 7 and up. Appropriately ghostly illustrations are well done by Felicia Marshall. Intended to tingle spines and elicit shivers the stories are filled with other worldy experiences - a deserted mansion inhabited only by waltzing ghostly dancers, an empty rocking chair that rocks, and rocks, and rocks. Youngsters who enjoy the intentionally eerie will take to these stories and may well want to repeat some of them around a campfire.