"A hefty sheaf of chillers-all short enough to share aloud and expertly cast to entice unwary middle graders a step or two into the shadows." Reviews for The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister Pays special attention to petrichor, things that glimmer, and mechanical body parts. Emma Trevayne Collector of Auditory Oddities, Whimsical Words, and Cryptic Cyphers. She is one of the four authors behind The Cabinet of Curiosities anthology, a Junior Library Guild selection and a NYPL Best Book for Children in 2014. She is also the author of The Year of Shadows and Winterspell, a young adult retelling of The Nutcracker. Claire Legrand's first novel was The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, a New York Public Library Best Book for Children in 2012. Katherine Catmull Cataloger and Philosopher of Scientific Marvels with a particular focus on Jars of Moonlight, Frozen Flowers, Broken Fish Fins, Shiny Things Found on Pavements, and Bringing Cookies to Meetings.
and the Paris catacombs, a weird dream about a golden corridor, and a general interest in history. Read more college in the dimly lit labyrinth of practice rooms, which may have inspired the subterranean scenes in A Drop of Night. When he's not writing, he can be found traveling to someplace chilly, or holed up beneath his. He was born in Colorado, spent most of his childhood in Switzerland, and is now studying modern music at the Zurich University of the Arts. Stefan Bachmann is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The Peculiar and its acclaimed sequel, The Whatnot. Great for reading alone or reading aloud at camp or school! The book features an introduction and commentary by the authors and black-and-white illustrations throughout. The Cabinet of Curiosities is perfect for fans of Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and anyone who relishes a good creepy tale.
A collection of thirty-six forty eerie, mysterious, intriguing, and very short stories by the acclaimed authors Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Claire LeGrand, and Emma Trevayne. Num Pages: 488 pages, illustrations (black and white). Thirty-six eerie short tales, most of which were originally published on the blog of the same name, relate to an imaginary museum of creepy artifacts and are arranged into such thematic "drawers" as love, luck, song, and fairy tales. Description for The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister Paperback.
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