Creepy Riddles (Easy-to-Read, Dial) - Hardcover

Hall, Katy; Eisenberg, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803716842 ISBN 13: 9780803716841

Publisher: Dial, 1998

Synopsis

A Halloween collection of fun offers more than forty simple and spooky riddles for beginning readers.

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Reviews

Grade 1-3-A collection of riddles about vampires, ghosts, ghouls, and assorted monsters. The selections are presented in an easy-to-read format with the answer immediately following each question. The selections are not particularly fresh but the illustrations are a scream. Schindler uses a fine-nibbed pen to include lots of subtle details before adding vivid watercolor washes. The sea monster who likes to eat "Fish-and-ships" shows the captain holding his nose as he abandons a vessel being consumed by a grinning sea serpent. Details like this make Creepy Riddles a superior choice for most joke or beginning-to-read collections.
Sharon R. Pearce, formerly at San Antonio Public Library, TX
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Gr. 1^-3, younger for reading aloud. Weird and lurid enough for Halloween howls, these riddles combine horrible scenarios ("What did the zombie eat after he had a tooth taken out? The dentist!") with Schindler's detailed, crosshatched, colorful, grotesque illustrations. As always with riddles, puns are the main source of pleasure, from pictures of "ghoulfriends" and Dracula reading his "horror-scope" to sea monsters eating "fish-and-ships." Part of the Easy-to-Read series, this is sure to be as popular as Hall and Eisenberg's other riddle books. The spooky nonsense is just right for showing that reading is fun. Hazel Rochman

Edition details

• Publisher: Dial
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803716842
• ISBN 13: 9780803716841
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Schindler S. D.
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48