{"id":3438,"date":"2014-09-29T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2014-09-29T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T13:08:10","slug":"help-a-reader-out-spooky-story-collection-for-the-younger-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/help-a-reader-out-spooky-story-collection-for-the-younger-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Help A Reader Out: Spooky Story Collection for the Younger Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone HAS to know this one. How many children&#8217;s books out there can possibly have housecleaning witches, spooky skeletons, Nessie, and a family of ghosts, all inside the same covers?<\/p>\n<p>Tracy says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This book isn&#8217;t part of a series like &#8220;scary stories to tell in the dark&#8221; or &#8220;goosebumps&#8221; and it&#8217;s for a younger demographic than those. It is illustrated and has several spooky themed short stories. One was about a grumpy witch who finds happiness by opening a cleaning service. I specifically remember her kicking a child&#8217;s tricycle and saying &#8220;get your ding-dang tricycle out of my driveway&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a story about a skeleton who liked to jump out from behind a gravestone to scare people, but one day he tried to scare a scotty dog and the dog stole his tasty leg bones.<\/p>\n<p>There was a story about someone playing bagpipes on Loch Ness and disrupting Nessie.<\/p>\n<p>The last story was about an extended ghost family getting ready to go out haunting for the night. The mom was ironing everyone&#8217;s sheets, the kids were playing with the ghost dog. The last page of the book showed the mom and dad ghost kissing the kids and tucking them in to bed. I think the back cover had the ghost family on a pirate ship. I can&#8217;t remember what the front color looked like but it may have been ghosts in a castle.<\/p>\n<p>I obtained the book in the early 1990s. \u00a0It&#8217;s probably first published around then.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see if we can help Tracy out. Please let me know if you have ANY ideas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone HAS to know this one. How many children&#8217;s books out there can possibly have housecleaning witches, spooky skeletons, Nessie, and a family of ghosts, all inside the same covers? Tracy says: This book isn&#8217;t part of a series like &#8220;scary stories to tell in the dark&#8221; or &#8220;goosebumps&#8221; and it&#8217;s for a younger demographic<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/help-a-reader-out-spooky-story-collection-for-the-younger-set\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,446,11],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrens-books","tag-help-a-reader-out","tag-readers-advisory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}