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The haunted playground

When Gavin takes his metal detector to a new playground to hunt for lost objects, he instead discovers a group of mysterious children who only appear after dark, and who tease him and try to persuade him to play with them until late into the night.

Main Author:	Tan, Shaun.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : Stone Arch Books, 2008.
Series:	Shade books.
Subjects:	Playgrounds > Juvenile fiction. Ghosts > Juvenile fiction. Horror stories > Juvenile.

Summary:	When Gavin takes his metal detector to a new playground to hunt for lost objects, he instead discovers a group of mysterious children who only appear after dark, and who tease him and try to persuade him to play with them until late into the night.
Item Description:	"First published in Australia in 1998 by Lothian Books"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:	73 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
ISBN:	1598899163 9781598899160
Author Notes:	Shaun Tan was born in 1974 in Fremantle, Western Australia. He is an artist, writer, and film maker. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel The Arrival won the "Book of the Year" prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. The same book won the Children's Book Council of Australia "Picture Book of the Year" award in 2007 and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize in 2006. For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" Tan won the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature. In 2015 his title, Rules of Summer, was one of four books selected for the United States Board of Books for Young People list of Outstanding International Books for children and young adults. His book, The Singing Bones, won the 2015 Aurealis Awards for Best Graphic Novel/Illustrated work. He had two books published in 2018, Cicada. and Tales From the Inner City (Bowker Author Biography)

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