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Move over, Christmas Carol-- here's a new holiday ghost story!
It's Christmas Eve, and Kaye's family is on the way to her grandmother's house in a swirling snowstorm. Suddenly the car hits a patch of ice. It slides across the road and skids into a snow-filled ditch! Through the car window, Kaye spots a light in the woods. Its glow leads her and her parents through the blizzard. They find a warm cabin and a kindly old woman named Elsa. And Kaye finds something else--a green ghost who needs her help!
Newbery Honor--winning author Marion Dane Bauer spins a third spooky tale to complement her previous stories, The Blue Ghost and The Red Ghost .
Author Notes
Marion Dane Bauer was born in Oglesby, Illinois. She attended community college first, in her home town, and then went to the University of Missouri when she was a junior to study journalism. She quickly realized that journalism was not for her and changed her focus to the humanities and a degree in English literature. She switched one last time to focus on teaching english, which she did when she graduated college.
After her children were born, Bauer decided to try her hand at writing. She started out with a children's picture book, but discovered that youg adult novels were more to her taste. After making a career out of writing, Bauer became the first Faculty Chair at Vermont College for the only Master of Fine Arts in Writing program devoted exclusively to writing for children and young adults.
Bauer is the author of more than forty books for young people. She has won many awards, including a Jane Addams Peace Association Award for her novel Rain of Fire and an American Library Association Newbery Honor Award for On My Honor and the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for the body of her work. Her picture book My Mother is Mine was a New York Times bestseller.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 2-4-In her third beginning-chapter-book ghost story, Bauer weaves a suspenseful holiday tale told in alternating voices. In 1938, a girl named Lillian dreams of a perfect Christmas tree and sacrifices herself to the cold to save her younger sister. Her ghost appears to a present-day youngster, Kaye, and leads her to a long-forgotten perfect Christmas tree (which still has the saw stuck in the trunk) and asks that she bring Lillian's younger sister, Elsa (who is now Kaye's grandmother's age), to see it. Elsa realizes that Kaye has seen her dead sister after the girl describes her beautiful green cloak-the very one that their father bought for Lillian to be buried in. Ferguson's atmospheric black-and-white illustrations appear throughout this sweet and tender offering.-Diane Olivo-Posner, Long Beach Public Library, CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
In December, 1938, Lillian looks through a shop window in town and falls in love with a green, velvet-lined cloak, a wholly inappropriate choice for a farmer's daughter. Some 70 years later, Kaye and her parents are driving through the countryside to Gran's house for Christmas when an accident forces them to seek shelter in a nearby house. That night, a mysterious girl in a green velvet cloak leads Kaye out of the house and into the woods. Called a companion novel to Bauer's The Blue Ghost (2005) and The Red Ghost (2008), this is a completely separate story. It features appealing protagonists in two time periods and manages the alternating narratives with ease. Particularly helpful for readers new to chapter books, Ferguson's drawings illustrate the tale with warmth and sensitivity. A good choice for young readers who enjoy the cozier sort of ghost story: not terrifying, but eerie, and with a happy ending.--Phelan, Carolyn Copyright 2008 Booklist