Review of WHOOO'S Haunting the Teeny Tiny Ghost?
by Caleb Powell (with a little help from Mommy and Daddy)


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In WHOOO'S Haunting the Teeny Tiny Ghost? by Kay Winters, a teeny tiny ghost goes to school. His cousin Brad, a bigger ghost who goes to the same school but is in a higher grade, tells the teeny tiny ghost to go down the slide at school, but the teeny tiny ghost is scared. He gets brave and then does it.

After school, the teeny tiny ghost flies home and finds the door to his house open. When he walks in his house, he has two black cats in his arms and hears chains clinking. Then he sees the eyes in a picture on the wall blinking at him and a chair starts rocking but no one is sitting on it. Next, he hears a stomp on his stairs, but nobody is there. He wonders how someone can be haunting his house when he is the ghost. He doesn't know what to do.

The teeny tiny ghost thinks about how brave he was when he slid down the slide at school, so he scoops up his cats, puffs out his chest and flies up to his bedroom to look around. He opens up his closet but nobody is there. Then he sees the curtain in his room blowing without any wind, so he gives the curtain a big yank and that's when he finds out that it is his big cousin Brad trying to scare him. Brad told the teeny tiny ghost he had been doing those scary things because his class had "hide and haunt" for homework.

Next, the two ghosts do the "spook-and-spin dance" and tell "rap-tap jokes" and get into a "marshmallow mess." When it is time for Brad to go home, the teeny tiny ghost says a loud goodbye and tells his cats that he can't wait until next year so that he can get Brad back.

I wonder what he'll plan to do to scare Brad?




Caleb is a 6-year-old kindergartner who loves to collect and build Bionicles, count money, and play "Monopoly Junior". He enjoys the outdoors and welcomes every opportunity to play outside with his friends. His mom, who is his number-one soccer fan, says that he is doing great in sports and school!




October 1, 2002