CREEPY STORY
Four friends arrive in school having all had a bad dream they cannot recollect to find a supply teacher asking them to write a CREEPY STORY.
There is a new girl in class and she sits beside Maya, one of four friends.
The class begin to write their stories, set in their hometown, in Winter.
Maya cannot think what to write but as each of her friends tell their stories to the class Maya can see them as clearly as anything. They feel real. Like she is right there, in the story.
SNOW
ICE
FLOOD
FROST
WINTER
Something is just not right!
Freeze by Chris Priestley is the book that made Esther realise she enjoys ghost stories. She enjoys mysteries with an eerie tone. She enjoys a scary story and likes to feel fear when reading. This book from Barrington Stoke is brilliant for introducing children to the horror genre in a gently terrifying manner! I was a lot more spooked by this story than Esther who took all the strange goings on entirely in her stride. I love the premise of this story, a class creative writing lesson. It enabled the author to explore the things of childhood nightmares and he does it so well. Moving snowmen, cracks in frozen ice, rising flood waters filled with the bodies of the dead and menacing puppets that come to life. Wildly thrilling, mildly terrifying and the perfect read for an autumn or winter eve. He also masters the was it real or was it all a dream storyline that so many children try to use in their writing. Everything about this book works. As soon as we finished it I bought Chris Priestley’s Seven Ghosts, which we are about to sit and read by torchlight now.
When the temperatures fall, the ghosts rise …
Happy Halloween!
We were sent a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review