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Schertle, Alice

The Skeleton in the Closet

32 pp. | HarperCollins | August, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-688-17738-7 $$15.99 | Library ISBN 0-688-17739-5 $$16.89
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Curtis Jobling. A boy is in bed "when I thought I heard a knocking...." He goes downstairs, looks out the window...and "two empty eyeholes stared right back!" The skeleton climbs the stairs to the boy's bedroom and announces what he's after: clothes to cover up his bones. The suspenseful rhyme bounces along, delivering both shivers and laughs, and the cartoonlike illustrations help diffuse the scariness.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2003

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