Stories for Around the Campfire

by Ray Harriot

Book Overview

Complete guide to telling campfire stories.A collection of Boy Scout oriented campfire stories for telling around a campfire. Where else? There are 24 stories -- about 10 that are geared to younger... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0961765305
• ISBN13: 9780961765309
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Campfire Publishing Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Age Range: 10 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 10

Customer Reviews

A handy Scout resource!

This handy little book was written for the Boy Scout leader, to give you stories to tell around the campfire, as well as tips on how to tell them. There are twenty-four stories here: ten funny stories, and fourteen scary ones. Couple all that with the Telling A Story chapter, and you have got yourself a handy Scout resource!Now that I am going on some Scout campouts, I have found the desire to be able to tell some "ghost" stores at the campfire, and this book (which is NOT an official BSA publication, by the way) is a nice thing to have. The stories are great, but I must say that their length at six pages does rather tax my memorizing abilities. That said, though, I did like this book, and highly recommend it.

Good Campfire Book!

Fun book to have with you when camping with kids! A few stories may not suit children too young, but otherwise, light and great around a campfire!

A fun-filled, and scary read!

If you are interested in camping out in the woods, and telling ghost stories this book would be a great read. My favorite tale is "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf" which is a take-off of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" story. Harriot is effective at being both funny and scary with this story whose ending is reminiscent of shaggy-dog stories. The second half of the book has some pretty frightening works, like "A Night at the Delany House", which is a creepy tale about two kids who are dared to stare at a haunted house for a night. Kids will love it, especially the funny ones.