![]() ![]() I enjoyed it so much I am going to go hunting for more children’s ghost stories by Ms Downing Hahn and also see if I can encourage my own kids to read them. ‘One for Sorrow’ was a fabulous balance of history, adventure and spine tingling scares – that weren’t so scary that the child might need to lock the book away in a drawer because it scared them too much (me again aged 9). So, yeah, my teacher reading the class ‘The Triffids’ was right out! □ But not such a scare as I couldn’t sleep in the dark. A little hair raising, but not so scary as needing to only read it in the daylight (or in your parents room as it’s so scary) – yes, that was me as a tween (all those eons ago) when I was reading a particularly scary kid’s book. Just added to the whole story and explained why the setting was so vivid.Īnd the ghostly hauntings were just right for the age group it is aimed at. The era the story was based in was clearly researched, and I do love the author’s note at the end explaining the inspiration for the story. And I knew this when I asked to read it as, quite frankly, I loved ghost stories when I was that age and the blurb of this book reminded me of such books. I wouldn’t even put it into the YA genre, more the tween (middle school in USA) genre. ![]() Now I want to remind people now that ‘One for Sorrow’ is of the “children’s fiction” genre. I would like to thank Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s Book Group for granting my wish on Netgalley and providing me with a free electronic ARC of this book. ![]()
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