The Dancing Skeleton

Cynthia C. DeFelice. Aladdin Paperbacks, $5.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-689-80453-3

THE DANCING SKELETON Cynthia C. DeFelice, illus. by Robert Andrew Parker. S&S/Aladdin, $5.99 ISBN 0-689-80453-9. PW praised the ""crackling good storytelling"" in this tale of a widow who tries to silence her husband's ghost when a fiddler comes courting. Ages 5-8. (Sept.)

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