Ghosts and Shadows

A collection of junior ghost stories, interspersed with a motley array of poetry and extracts. The stories are short, rarely more than five or six pages long, and --- as one would expect with Dorothy Edwards editing --- they're largely cosy, anodyne stuff. The exception is Margaret Gore's The Shadow Man which has a slightly shivery, open ending that could make it a useful read-aloud trailer to the book. Dorothy Edwards' own Friend Nimmy is also worth knowing. I've found several uses in a secondary classroom with the single-page pieces proving particularly handy. Keep a copy by you.