Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales
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Thank you to my very own prince (who always practices the strictest levels of fire safety), Noah, and to our three delightful and well-behaved children, Elena, Jonah, and Ezra. They helped with my vocabulary, and can spell well enough to save all our lives should the need arise. Kids, if you promise never to get pet snakes, I promise never to make pease porridge.
Finally, thank YOU. Yes, you! No, not you. Just kidding, even you! Thank you for reading. I’ve been trying to write the right book for kids just like you my whole career. I’m so happy it’s in your hands now. I hope you loved it! And if you didn’t, please bring all complaints to my friend, the fair Herr. He’s dying to eat you. I mean, meet you. Yes. Meet you.
KIERSTEN WHITE is the acclaimed bestselling author of And I Darken, the Paranormalcy trilogy, the Mind Games series, The Chaos of Stars, Illusions of Fate, and In the Shadows (with artist Jim Di Bartolo). She lives in San Diego with her husband and three children. Her life is as happy as a stroll through a dark wood with a full picnic basket. Visit her online at www.kierstenwhite.com.
Text copyright © 2017 by Kiersten Brazier
Illustrations copyright © 2017 by Karl Kwasny
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: White, Kiersten, author. | Title: Beanstalker and other hilarious scarytales / Kiersten White. | Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2017. | Summary: Snow White is a vampire, Little Red Riding Hood is a zombie, and Cinderella is an arsonist–and that is only some of the mayhem the reader will find in this collection of fractured fairy tales. | Identifiers: LCCN 2016040578 (print) | LCCN 2016044412 (ebook) | ISBN 9780545940603 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780545945868 | Subjects: LCSH: Fairy tales. | Horror tales. | Humorous stories. | CYAC: Characters in literature–Fiction. | Fairy tales. | Horror stories. | Humorous stories. | LCGFT: Horror fiction. | Humorous fiction | Classification: LCC PZ8.W5795 Be 2017 (print) | LCC PZ8.W5795 (ebook) | DDC 813.6 [Fic]–dc23 | LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016040578.
First edition, August 2017
e-ISBN 978-0-545-94586-8
Cover design by Carol Ly and Baily Crawford
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