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Scarum Fair


School year: Year 5, Year 6, Year 7

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No. of pages 32

Published: 2010

Great for age 7-12 years

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Enter the Scarum Fair ... if you dare! Take a ride on the Scary-Go-Round and Teacup Terror, or enter the Coffin Race. Meet The Head, The Hand, and Madame Ratowski, the palm reader who likes to be paid in swiss cheese. Visit the chiropractic tent of Dr. Crunch, who'll "pulverize your sternum, and disconnect your knee, then move your metatarsals where your tailbone used to be." And unusual food awaits: sample some cat-hair stew, I-scream, and a type-A blood-red punch. Cap off the entertainment with a special event: Count Dracula's wedding. Jessica Swaims's deliciously creepy, funny poems are brought to life by Carol Ashley's gorgeous, ghoulish illustrations in this CRA Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Silver Honor Book.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 2010 by Astra Publishing House .

Jessica Swaim is a former children's librarian and currently catalogs library materials for a school district in Colorado. She is the author of a rhyming picture book, The Hound form the Pound . She lives near Denver, Colorado. Carol Ashley earned a BFA in animation and an MFA in film and art from the California Institute of the Arts. She worked on such films as Over the Hedge, Madagascar, and Flushed Away. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. This is her first picture book.

 

This book has been nominated for the following awards:

Beehive Award - Poetry
This book was recognised in the Poetry category by the Beehive Award.

Alabama Camellia Award - Grades 4-6
This book was recognised in the Grades 4-6 category by the Alabama Camellia Award.

Bluebonnet Award
This book was recognised by the Bluebonnet Award.

Cybils Award - Poetry
This book was recognised in the Poetry category by the Cybils Award. The Cybils Awards is a group of readers passionate about seeking out and recognizing books that represent diversity, inclusion, and appropriate representation for children and teens. To accomplish that goal, the Cybils Awards works to recognize books written for children and young adults that combine both the highest literary merit and popular appeal.

"Prepare for a deliciously scary and occasionally gross carnival experience. . . . Will keep kids turning pages." --"Kirkus Reviews"

 

 

"Students will be clamoring to get their hands on it." --"Library Media Connection"

 

"A little bit silly, a little bit sinister. . . . A punchy treat for fans of the macabre." --Publishers Weekly

"Prepare for a deliciously scary and occasionally gross carnival experience. . . . Will keep kids turning pages." --Kirkus Reviews"Students will be clamoring to get their hands on it." --Library Media Connection

"There's something about the singsong nature of rhyming poetry - the assurance of that inevitable final-line shock - that makes it an ideal delivery method for the spooky." --Booklist