If she’s more adventurous, she might be ready for a sleepover spooky read use this for the ‘settling slot’ before full lights out. If your girl is part of a reading club with pals, try a Victorian theme. This book is perfect for shared reading because of the bite-size structure and scariness. How to get more out of it for social readers Think widely here – stories includes books, films and TV shows. If she’s curious about this, set her off matching her favourite stories to other ghost stories. Matching a skeleton of a story to another famous story is really fun and it drives the analytical skills wild. Keen readers can tease out how the stories are different if they’re the kind of reader who likes to get under the bonnet and see how the story’s motor runs. These MR James style stories are a masterful example of different types of ghost stories, too. This collection is a great introduction to gothic, so getting keen readers to spot the similarities in stories will send them on a voyage of discovery that they will use a lot in their teen years. How to get more out of it for keen readers Themes – creepy comeuppances, to follow authority or not, instincts of unease, shared storytelling.
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