![]() Four authors have put forth their talents to provide these tales. ![]() So it is with great delight I delved into this new collection of strange and sinister stories. They can offer a range of styles and events for a single theme, or explore the variety in one genre. (You can see more about short stories in my posts here and here .) And short stories are such a wonderful format for young readers to encounter! Bite- sized offerings that can entice even a reluctant reader to stick with the length, bubbles of ideas and situations that do not require novel-length arcs to express. While back a few decades ago there seemed to be dozens of them, in the past ten years the number of anthologies seems to have dwindled substantially. ![]() ![]() Ready to be chilled, thrilled and left a little uneasy about the dark? Four talented authors and one atmospheric illustrator combine their talents to produce a collection that will do just that.Īnthologies of short stories in children’s fiction are not all that commonplace. The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister by Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Claire Legrand and Emma Trevayne, illustrated by Alexander Jansson (Greenwillow, May 2014) ![]()
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