Can't Scare Me!

By BRYAN, Ashley

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ISBN
978-1-4424-7657-8 978-1-4424-7658-5
Publisher
S & S Atheneum


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on October 1, 2013  |  Preschool to Grades 4

PreS-Gr 3—With his inimitable style and distinctive folk-art illustrations, Bryan tells a trickster tale from the French and English Antilles about a wild and fearless boy who doesn't flinch even when his grandma tells him stories of giants with two and three heads. He plays his flute ("Too-de-loo-de-loo-de-loot!") and sings: "Tanto, tanto, I'm wild and I'm free./Grandma's s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Magazine

Reviewed on September 1, 2013

The master storyteller offers a sprightly rhymed retelling of a folktale first collected on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, by Elsie Clews Parsons and published in her Folk-Lore of the Antilles, French and English. The “oh so wild” little boy who “knew no fear” is warned of the two-headed giant by his grandma, but he is so bold that he scoffs at her warnings and runs off by himse...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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