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The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe

by Tony Johnston

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Dial (1996-09-01)

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Amazon Description

When a little dog unwittingly unearths a bone belonging to the deceased farmer Nicholas Greebe, a quiet New England farmhouse is suddenly transformed into a place of outrageous happenings. Set in colonial America, The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe is spooky and fun. Full color.

One Potato Review

Will this give you nightmares? Hard to say, but it’s a pretty good place to begin if you are fascinated (and repelled and then fascinated) by scary stories. There’s some history here too - a haunting begins in Colonial Massachusetts, a bone makes its way to the Polar North on a whaler - still you are more likely to carry away, and to endlessly remember, the moaning, perennial, occasionally party-stopping song of old Greebe:

“Forevermore
I quest, I quest
till all my bones
together rest.”
   

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1Posted by: Loralee Cooley on 08/08

How good to see another story by Tony Johnston!  As a storyteller, I’ve often told her delightful western version—slightly reversed—of “The Princess and the Pea,” which is entitled “The Cowboy and the Blackeyed Pea.” 

This story sounds just as delicious!

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