Book Descriptions
for Some Things Are Scary by Florence Parry Heide and Jules Feiffer
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
“Stepping on something squishy when you in your bare feet is scary./ Holding on to someone’s hand that isn’t your mother’s when you thought it was is scary.” Florence Parry Heide’s amusing catalogue of everyday tests of courage was first published in 1969. Now reissued in full color with Feiffer’s comically exaggerated illustrations, it will find a new generation of young readers who are brave enough to laugh at some of their own fears (Ages 7-11)
CCBC Choices 2001. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2001. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Know someone who's starting school? Getting a new job? Going to the in-laws' for the first time? For anyone on the brink of something scary, this gift edition of a hilarious classic is the perfect antidote.
You're skating downhill, but you don't know how to stop. You're having your hair cut, and you suddenly realize . . . they're cutting it too short. There's no question about it: some things are scary. And never have common bugaboos been exposed with more comic urgency than in this masterful mix of things horrible and humiliating, monstrous or merely unsettling. Now in a compact edition with a new cover - and a bookplate that lets gift-givers specify the occasion - Florence Parry Heide's witty text and Jules Feiffer's over-the-top illustrations will get even the most anxious recipients laughing, while reassuring them (no matter how old they are) that they're not alone in their fears.
You're skating downhill, but you don't know how to stop. You're having your hair cut, and you suddenly realize . . . they're cutting it too short. There's no question about it: some things are scary. And never have common bugaboos been exposed with more comic urgency than in this masterful mix of things horrible and humiliating, monstrous or merely unsettling. Now in a compact edition with a new cover - and a bookplate that lets gift-givers specify the occasion - Florence Parry Heide's witty text and Jules Feiffer's over-the-top illustrations will get even the most anxious recipients laughing, while reassuring them (no matter how old they are) that they're not alone in their fears.
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