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Gobsmacked

Loud bumps and tiny footsteps in Little Bear’s Visit by Else Holmelund Minarik and Maurice Sendak.

Filed Under: Animals Folklore Movies Scary

The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf

Spring Back

Three leafy new retellings.

Filed Under: Animals Folklore Seasons

Some Things Are Scary

Books to put the fright back in Halloween.

Filed Under: Folklore Holiday Scary

Fool Me Twice

Tell the Truth, B.B. Wolf by Judy Sierra and J. Otto Seibold.

McFig and McFly: A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge and Death (with a Happy Ending)

Built to Spill

Bad eggs and tall orders in McFig and McFly, A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge and Death (with a Happy Ending).

Creep Silently

Consolations of winter in The Tomten and the Fox by Astrid Lindgren, Harald Wiberg, Karl-Erik Forsslund and generations of Scandinavians who would know.

Filed Under: Folklore Foreigners Holiday Seasons

Everything You Never Knew

The wasted potential of monsters.

Wait, We Just Got Here

At the edge of unreason in Michael Rosen’s Sad Book.

Goblins in America

A foolish consistency, and the case for magical thinking.

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Spring Back

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Fool Me Twice

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Wait, We Just Got Here

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