Famous Ghosts

Lightning Bolt Books ® - That's Scary!

by Susan B. Katz

From La Llorona to the Bell Witch, kids will thrill to learn about all kinds of famous ghosts! Chapters cover ghosts of folklore, ghosts from history, and ghost stories told around the campfire.

24 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2023

About the author

Susan B. Katz is an award-winning, Spanish-bilingual author/illustrator with Scholastic, Penguin Random House, S&S, Bala Kids, Heinemann, Callisto/Rockridge and Barefoot Books. She has ten published books, one of which she wrote in Spanish for Scholastic, and 12 more books coming out in 2020/2021 with Simon & Schuster, Heinemann and Rockridge Press! MEDITATION STATION, a picture book about trains and mindfulness, is forthcoming with Bala Books (Shambhala) this fall and just won the International Book Award for Best Mind/Body/Spirit Children’s Book. Susan also has eight chapter book biographies due out in 2020/2021. THE STORY OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG, THE STORY OF FRIDA KAHLO and THE STORY OF JANE GOODALL are the first three titles in that series. For the past 25 years, Ms. Katz worked as a bilingual elementary educator, National Board Certified Teacher and literacy specialist. Her website is: www.SusanKatzBooks.com

Reviews

[B · Rating 1 out of 5]

Terrible book. I'd rather read a book about paint than read this horrible excuse of a book again

[AllyP Reads Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice somewhat spooky book for kids listing some famous ghost stories. I wish the author had left out the nonsense about the Ben Franklin statue coming alive and dancing. That is something clearly made up.
The pictures that accompanied the Bell Witch story didn't really make sense either. There was a picture of the Bell Witch Cave without explanation of what this cave was. The next page had old buildings with the caption indicating they were buildings near the Bell Farm. So what? Do those buildings have something to do with the ghost, the family, the farm, anything?

[Mehsi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Same problem as the other book, I hadn't expected it to be this early-reader. However, this one just had a bit more than the other book so it gets a bit higher score.