The Unsolved Mystery of Ghosts (First Facts: Unexplained Mysteries) - Softcover

Michael Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620658097 ISBN 13: 9781620658093

Publisher: Capstone Press, 2013

Synopsis

A sudden chill in a warm room. Strange noises echoing at night. Mysterious figures appearing out of nowhere. Are ghosts real? No one knows for sure. Explore this unsolved mystery, and why some people believe and others don’t.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Martin has been a woodwork teacher at the Waldorf school in Nurnberg, Germany, for many years.

From School Library Journal

Gr 1-3-Readers may be confused after browsing through these introductions to mysterious creatures and phenomena. Short chapters offer definitions of each one and its role in history and legends, with unfamiliar words highlighted and defined in sidebars. The large photographs and illustrations are fittingly creepy, scary, and/or appealing. The tone is a bit at odds with itself, however. Each book includes "True or False" sections that lay out rational explanations for the phenomena or strange beings, but then follow them with ambiguous and/or misleading statements. For example, Loch Ness Monster ends with this sentence: "Until the mystery is solved, what swims in Loch Ness will remain unknown." Rather than encourage kids to think for themselves, this set might leave them mystified. α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Capstone Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620658097
• ISBN 13: 9781620658093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24