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Don't read this! and other tales of the unnatural

An international collection of ghost stories and spooky tales by such authors as Susan Cooper, Roberto Piumini, and Bjarne Reuter.

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Other Authors:	The, Tjong Khing (Illustrator), Mahy, Margaret, Cooper, Susan, 1935-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Multiple languages
Published:	Asheville, N.C. : Front Street/Lemniscaat, 2004, c1998.
Edition:	1st Front Street pbk. ed.
Subjects:	Ghost stories > Juvenile. Children's stories. Short stories > Juvenile.
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Summary:	An international collection of ghost stories and spooky tales by such authors as Susan Cooper, Roberto Piumini, and Bjarne Reuter.
Item Description:	Reprint: Originally published: 1998.
Physical Description:	208 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	193242525X : PAP
Author Notes:	Margaret Mahy was born on March 21, 1936 in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She received a B.A. degree from the University of New Zealand. She worked as a nurse, an assistant librarian, and a children's librarian in England and New Zealand. Her first book, A Lion in the Meadow, was published in 1969. She became a full-time author in 1980. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 children's books including The Haunting, The Changeover, Memory, The Seven Chinese Brothers, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and A Summery Saturday Morning. She won the Esther Glen Award five times, the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association three times, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 1999, she won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Award in two categories, Picture Book and Supreme Award. She died after a brief illness on July 23, 2012 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography)