Summary
Eight stories of the bizarre, including one about granola that turns people into apple trees, and one about a strange desert creature that saves people from dying of thirst.
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"Sometimes clever, sometimes dark, and often quirky, the roundup offers good variety and lots of surprises, and like Jennings' previous anthologies of weird tales, it's a good change of pace, full of imagination." -- Stephanie Zuirin
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published date: 1995
Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.6 pounds
Ages: 4 to 6
Pages: 117
Synopses
A collection of eight stories about the scary, the supernatural, or the unusual, including a mysterious bottle whose contents let you read people's minds and homemade granola that turns a boy into an apple tree.
Publisher's Notes
A collection of stories by a four-time winner of the Young Australian's Best Book Award includes the tales of an elixir for reading minds, a kind of granola that turns eaters into apple trees, and desert creatures that save dehydrated humans.
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