"bibliography: No. 1 of the ""Stalky & Co."" series in the ""Windsor Magazine"" was entitled ""Stalky"" and appeared in the ""December, 1898"" number of that Magazine. It was not included in the book, nor has it ever been reproduced. However, as the Kipling Society states, it was indeed collected in 1923, as one of the ""Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides"". An expanded version of ""Stalky & Co."" called ""The Complete Stalky and Co."" was published by Doubleday and Company (New York) in 1946. It contains all of the 1899 stories plus five more. They appear in the"
"Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls (series) Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls (more commonly known simply as Naughty Stories) is a series of 13 books containing 4 short stories each about naughty children who learn a lesson at the end written by Christopher Milne. The stories are each around 5-10 pages long, and altogether, the 13 books have sold 550 000 copies worldwide and the first book has won the Young Australian's Best Book Award. There are 13 books in the series, each with 4 stories, making a total of 52 stories. There are also spinoffs of"
"Naughty Stories (released by the same author): Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls (series) Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls (more commonly known simply as Naughty Stories) is a series of 13 books containing 4 short stories each about naughty children who learn a lesson at the end written by Christopher Milne. The stories are each around 5-10 pages long, and altogether, the 13 books have sold 550 000 copies worldwide and the first book has won the Young Australian's Best Book Award. There are 13 books in the series, each with 4 stories, making a total of"
"snacks and beg for more."" <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Short & Shivery Short & Shivery, also known as Short & Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales, is a series of scary short-story children's books, published from 1987-1998 and written by author Robert D. San Souci (also known for writing various other scary children's books, including ""Dare to Be Scared: Thirteen Stories to Chill and Thrill"". The popular anthology series spawned several sequels throughout an 11-year span. Each book contained 30 tales from America and around the world, including classics by various famous authors throughout history. Selected from international ghost folklore, each volume contains 30 stories,"
"Short & Shivery Short & Shivery, also known as Short & Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales, is a series of scary short-story children's books, published from 1987-1998 and written by author Robert D. San Souci (also known for writing various other scary children's books, including ""Dare to Be Scared: Thirteen Stories to Chill and Thrill"". The popular anthology series spawned several sequels throughout an 11-year span. Each book contained 30 tales from America and around the world, including classics by various famous authors throughout history. Selected from international ghost folklore, each volume contains 30 stories, specifically retold by author Robert D."
"mothers declare in unison, ""For the last time, you can't go to school today,"" indicating that the disappointed boys are now really sick and cannot go to school on the day of the circus. Patsy Barry, John Collum, Paul Hilton, Sidney Kibrick, Jackie Lindquist, Dickie De Nuet, Donald Proffitt, Harold Switzer, Robert Winckler Spooky Hooky Spooky Hooky is a 1936 ""Our Gang"" short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 149th ""Our Gang"" (61st talking episode) short that was released. When Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat and Porky become bored with school, they decide to fake an illness for the"
"The World Is the Home of Love and Death The World Is the Home of Love and Death: Stories is a collection of short stories written by Harold Brodkey and first published posthumously in 1997. Most of the stories were written to be part of his novel ""The Runaway Soul"" and concern its characters. Four of the eleven stories (""The Bullies"", ""Spring Fugue"", ""What I Do for Money"", and ""Dumbness is Everything"") were originally printed in ""The New Yorker"" and one (""Religion"") in ""Glimmer Train"", from 1986 to 1996. The ""Runaway Soul"" stories are from the perspective of that novel's"
"""Night Shift"" and ""The Road Virus Heads North"" and ""Autopsy Room Four"" appear in ""Everything's Eventual""). Nightmares & Dreamscapes Nightmares & Dreamscapes is a short story collection by American writer Stephen King, published in 1993. King dedicated this collection of stories to Thomas Williams, a writing instructor who taught for many years at the University of New Hampshire. Since the book's publication, King has singled out Williams' National Book Award-winning novel ""The Hair of Harold Roux"" as a favorite of his, one he returns to ""again and again."" The dedication reads: ""The Night Flier"" and ""Dolan's Cadillac"" were both adapted"
"Our Gang Our Gang (later known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals) is a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series was produced from 1922 to 1944 and is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively natural way. Roach and original director Robert F. McGowan worked to film the unaffected, raw nuances apparent in regular children rather than have them imitate adult acting styles. The series broke new ground by portraying white and black boys and girls interacting as equals."
"Dav Pilkey David Murray ""Dav"" Pilkey Jr. (; born March 4, 1966) is an American author and illustrator of children's literature. Pilkey is best known as the author and illustrator of the children's book series ""Captain Underpants"" and ""Dumb Bunnies"", the latter of which are written under the pseudonym Sue Denim. Pilkey was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Barbara and David Pilkey Sr. He has one older sister. In elementary school in North Ridgeville, Ohio, Pilkey was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. Pilkey was frequently reprimanded for his behavior in class and thus usually sat at a desk in the"
"Girls,"" ""A Clear Blue Sky"" and ""Bad Moon Rising"", all from Puffin, India,""More Mystery Stories"" (1989), ""24 Short Stories"" (1991), both from Children's Book Trust, New Delhi,""Sorry, Best Friend"" (1996) and ""One World"", both from Tulika, Chennai, the Target Annuals (1989,1990)and ""The Best of Target"" She has written a number of columns for children, the longest running of which, 'A Letter to You', a humour column about a 10-year-old boy Perky and his friend Raghu, ran intermittently in the weekly, later monthly, magazine ""Children's World"" for over thirty years. Another column of hers, 'Role Call', about school life, appeared weekly"
"Boys to Board Boys to Board is the 11th ""Our Gang"" short subject comedy released. The ""Our Gang"" series (later known as ""The Little Rascals"") was created by Hal Roach in 1922, and continued production until 1944. A kindly old school teacher helps the gang escape from his wife’s miserable boarding school. While escaping, they run afoul of a bootlegger, who captures them and ties them up until the old school teacher rescues them just before the sheriff gets there. The school teacher returns to the boarding school and demands better treatment for the boys. Mary Kornman does not appear"
"Hawkins during at least one broadcast. Seckatary Hawkins Robert F. Schulkers (21 July 1890, Covington, Kentucky, Kentucky — 6 April 1972, Cincinnati) is the author of a series of children's novels. The 11 novels were first published between 1921 and 1932, although many appeared first in serialized form in ""The Cincinnati Enquirer"" and hundreds of other newspapers around the country. The eleven novels are: ""Stoner's Boy"", ""Seckatary Hawkins in Cuba"", ""The Red Runners"", ""The Gray Ghost"", ""Stormie the Dog Stealer"", ""Knights of the Square Table"", ""Ching Toy"", ""The Chinese Coin"", ""The Yellow Y"", ""Herman the Fiddler"", and ""The Ghost of"
"Nightmares & Dreamscapes Nightmares & Dreamscapes is a short story collection by American writer Stephen King, published in 1993. King dedicated this collection of stories to Thomas Williams, a writing instructor who taught for many years at the University of New Hampshire. Since the book's publication, King has singled out Williams' National Book Award-winning novel ""The Hair of Harold Roux"" as a favorite of his, one he returns to ""again and again."" The dedication reads: ""The Night Flier"" and ""Dolan's Cadillac"" were both adapted to films of the same respective names. ""Chattery Teeth"" was adapted into a segment of the"
"Gramma (short story) ""Gramma"" is a short horror story by American author Stephen King. It was first published in ""Weirdbook"" magazine in 1984 and collected in King's 1985 collection called ""Skeleton Crew"". Certain characters/creatures/unearthly powers featured in the works of H. P. Lovecraft also appear in this story, making it a story set in the Cthulhu Mythos. An 11-year-old boy named George Bruckner is at home with his mother, Ruth, when the two find out that George's 14-year-old brother Buddy has broken his leg playing baseball. George's mother must go into the city, an hour away, to visit Buddy in"
"popular book, ""Strangely Enough!"", a collection of short non-fiction narrative about true life adventure, paranormal mysteries, UFO's, and other unusual events. C. B. Colby Carroll Burleigh Colby (September 7, 1904 – October 31, 1977) was an American writer, primarily of nonfiction children's books. He wrote more than 100 books that were widely circulated in public and school libraries in the United States. He is best known for ""Strangely Enough!"" (1959). Colby was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, graduated from Stevens High School in 1922, and then attended the School of Practical Art in Boston, where he graduated in 1925. He"
"Skeleton Crew Skeleton Crew is a collection of short fiction by American writer Stephen King, published by Putnam in June 1985. A limited edition of a thousand copies was published by Scream/Press in October 1985 (), illustrated by J. K. Potter, containing an additional short story, ""The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson"", which had originally appeared in ""Rolling Stone"" magazine (July 19 – August 2, 1984), and was later incorporated into King's 1987 novel ""The Tommyknockers"". The original title of this book was ""Night Moves"". The collection features 22 works, which includes nineteen short stories, a novella (""The Mist""), and two"
"Meddling Kids Meddling Kids is a 2017 horror-comedy novel by Catalan author Edgar Cantero, published by Doubleday and Blumhouse Books. It deals with a former gang of children detectives, in the vein of Enid Blyton's Famous Five or ""Scooby-Doo"" who reunite in their mid-twenties to reopen a case that traumatized them as kids and expose a plot of Lovecraftian horror. The novel opens with a newspaper clip from 1977 featuring the ""Blyton Summer Detective Club"", a bunch of young investigators, aged 11–13, who solved the mystery of an alleged monster haunting the area of Sleepy Lake in Oregon. Thirteen years"
"Cat, Dog & Co. Cat, Dog & Co. is a 1929 ""Our Gang"" short silent comedy film directed by Anthony Mack. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 91st entry in the series. Joe, Farina, and Harry are racing their dog-powered cars when they are stopped and reported to the President of the Be Kind to Animals Society. After promising to be kind to animals, the boys are made honorary society members. They soon convince other children to be kind to animals, and they release them from their cages to ensuing chaos. The silent"
"His collection of stories, ""Stalky & Co"", published in 1899, was based on his experiences at the College. To commemorate his living there, the first stanza of his poem If— is set into the pavement on the promenade in granite setts. Westward Ho! is twinned with Mondeville in France, and Büddenstedt in Germany. The town lends its name to a song by the band Half Man Half Biscuit which recounts a dream about holidaying in the town. The song also mentions the nearby village of Northam. Westward Ho! <nowiki></nowiki> Westward Ho! is a seaside village near Bideford in Devon, England."
"Screw-Jack Screwjack & Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson. It was first published by Maurice Neville in 1991 in a limited edition of 300 numbered and 26 lettered copies, then republished in 2000 by Simon & Schuster (). ""Mescalito"", previously published in ""Songs of the Doomed"", is a trippy account of a long wait for morning in a Los Angeles hotel while high on speed and mescaline, aided only when Oscar arrives with beer. The story then picks up on an airplane, where Thompson's trip turns dark and miserably comedic in"
"The Hardy Boys The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in several mystery series for children and teens. The characters were created by American writer Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of book-packaging firm Stratemeyer Syndicate; the books themselves are written by ghostwriters under the collective pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon. The Hardy Boys have evolved since their debut in 1927. Beginning in 1959, the books were extensively revised, partially to eliminate racial stereotypes. The books were also written in a simpler style to compete with television. Some critics argue that the Hardy Boys changed in the process,"
"Spooky Hooky Spooky Hooky is a 1936 ""Our Gang"" short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 149th ""Our Gang"" (61st talking episode) short that was released. When Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat and Porky become bored with school, they decide to fake an illness for the next day and leave a note on their teacher Miss Lawrence's desk so that they can go to the circus, which they had just seen arrive in town. However, when Miss Lawrence reveals that she plans on taking the class to the circus the next day, Spanky tries to hurry back to the"
"Freckles and His Friends Freckles and his Friends was an American comic strip set in the peaceful small town of Shadyside where young Freckles McGoosey and his friends lived. Although the long-running strip, created by Merrill Blosser, is remembered for its continuing storyline involving a group of teenagers, it originally featured a child at the age of six or seven in gag-a-day situations. Illustrated by Blosser and later by Henry Formhals (1908-1981), ""Freckles and His Friends"" was ghostwritten by Fred Fox (1903-1981). A gagwriter for Groucho Marx and Judy Canova, Fox scripted for radio, television and films. Widely syndicated by"
"The Boogeyman (short story) ""The Boogeyman"" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1973 issue of the magazine ""Cavalier"", and later collected in King's 1978 collection ""Night Shift"". The majority of the story occurs in the office of Dr. Harper, a psychiatrist, where a man named Lester Billings talks to the doctor about the ""murders"" of his three young children. Billings seems paranoid and possibly schizophrenic as he describes the circumstances of the death of his children. His first two children died mysteriously of apparently unrelated causes (diagnosed as crib death and convulsions, respectively) when"
"in the collections ""The Swoop! and Other Stories"" (1979) and ""The Eighteen-Carat Kid and Other Stories"" (1980); others, along with many school stories never published in book form in Wodehouse's lifetime, were collected in ""Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere"" (1997). Tales of St. Austin's Tales of St. Austin's is a collection of short stories and essays, all with a school theme, by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published on 10 November 1903 by Adam & Charles Black, London, all except one item having previously appeared in the schoolboy magazines, ""The Captain"" and ""Public School Magazine"". The stories are set"
"Boys' Ranch Boys' Ranch was a six-issue American comic book series created by the veteran writer-artist team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Harvey Comics in 1950. A Western in the then-prevalent ""kid gang"" vein popularized by such film series as ""Our Gang"" and ""The Dead End Kids"", the series starred three adolescents—Dandy, Wabash, and Angel—who operate a ranch that was bequeathed to them, under the adult supervision of frontiersman Clay Duncan. Supporting characters included Palomino Sue, Wee Willie Weehawken, citizens of the town Four Massacres, and various Native Americans, including a fictional version of the real-life Geronimo. Noted"
"The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces is a collection of short stories and recollections by Franz Kafka, with additional writings by Max Brod. First published in 1948 by Schocken Books, this volume includes all the works Kafka intended for publication, and published during his lifetime (the only exception in The Stoker which serves as a first chapter for the novel ""Amerika""). It also includes critical pieces by Kafka, ""The First Long Train Journey"" by Kafka and Brod (which was initially intended to be the first chapter of a book), and an Epilogue"
"2017 for its lesbian romance subplot. Meddling Kids Meddling Kids is a 2017 horror-comedy novel by Catalan author Edgar Cantero, published by Doubleday and Blumhouse Books. It deals with a former gang of children detectives, in the vein of Enid Blyton's Famous Five or ""Scooby-Doo"" who reunite in their mid-twenties to reopen a case that traumatized them as kids and expose a plot of Lovecraftian horror. The novel opens with a newspaper clip from 1977 featuring the ""Blyton Summer Detective Club"", a bunch of young investigators, aged 11–13, who solved the mystery of an alleged monster haunting the area of"
"to know how Dick overcomes these tribulations—but then, you already know, don’t you. There is always a happy ending in Horatio Alger’s stories."" Ragged Dick Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is a ""Bildungsroman"" by Horatio Alger Jr., which was serialized in ""Student and Schoolmate"" in 1867 and expanded for publication as a full-length novel in May 1868 by the publisher A. K. Loring. It was the first volume in the six-volume Ragged Dick Series and became Alger's best-selling work. The tale follows a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability in 19th-century New York"
"Stainboy The World of Stainboy is a series of flash animation shorts created in 2000 by director Tim Burton and animated by Flinch Studio. The character Stainboy first appeared in two short poems in the book ""The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories"", also created and illustrated by Tim Burton. The series is Burton's first foray into the superhero genre since ""Batman Returns"". In the shorts, Stainboy works for the Burbank police, and at the start of each episode he is ordered to investigate and bring in social outcasts. Many of the outcasts are characters from the ""Oyster"
"Manby, Daisy Waugh and Helen Simpson. Girls' Night In ""Girls' Night In"" is a global short-story compilation series written mainly by female novelists, with all proceeds from the sale of the books going to charities War Child and, for one volume, another children's charity, No Strings. The first book was the brainchild of novelists Jessica Adams, Chris Manby, Freya North and Fiona Walker. Publishers include HarperCollins UK, Penguin Australia and Red Dress Ink USA. Team editors over the series include Jessica Adams, Maggie Alderson, Nick Earls, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Lauren Henderson, Chris Manby, Carole Matthews, Sarah Mlynowski and Fiona Walker. The"
"The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a 1997 poetry book written and illustrated by film director Tim Burton. The poems, which are full of black humor, tell stories of hybrid kids, spontaneous transformers, and women who have babies to win over men. Some characters of the book would later appear in the Flash series ""Stainboy"", which was created, directed, and written by Burton. According to American comics artist and publisher Stephen R. Bissette, the title poem ""The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy"" was originally conceived as a"