Half-Minute Horrors
when you hear about a book of half-minute horrors for children, you kinda just shrug your shoulders and decide that you'll read it as a quick, easy filler in between books, right? but here's the thing: you're wrong. this book was absolutely not a buffer. it was actually creepy - and i say this as someone who reads a lot of horror books, so it's not like i'm just a wimp or something. most of these bite-sized tales were incredibly clever, and they took some quick twists and turns, and some of them actually left me pondering over them for a couple of hours after i finished them. others were funny, and a couple were on the silly side, in my opinion, but overall, this was a really good, spooky book, in the vein of [b:Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark|1325218|Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories #1)|Alvin Schwartz|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1338762802s/1325218.jpg|145600].
my personal favorite thing in this entire book was the legend of alexandra & rose by jon klassen, which you can see in this review.
my personal favorite thing in this entire book was the legend of alexandra & rose by jon klassen, which you can see in this review.