Marion Dane Bauer is the author of more than forty books for children. The companion to The Green Ghost, The Blue Ghost was named to the Texas Bluebonnet Master List for 2007-2008 and to the Sunshine State Award list. Her Stepping Stones mystery, The Secret of the Painted House, was named a CCBC Children's Choices Book. She lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Peter Ferguson also illustrated The Red Ghost. He is currently living in Argentina.
Gr 2-4-In her third beginning-chapter-book ghost story, Bauer weaves a suspenseful holiday tale told in alternating voices. In 1938, a girl named Lillian dreams of a perfect Christmas tree and sacrifices herself to the cold to save her younger sister. Her ghost appears to a present-day youngster, Kaye, and leads her to a long-forgotten perfect Christmas tree (which still has the saw stuck in the trunk) and asks that she bring Lillian's younger sister, Elsa (who is now Kaye's grandmother's age), to see it. Elsa realizes that Kaye has seen her dead sister after the girl describes her beautiful green cloak-the very one that their father bought for Lillian to be buried in. Ferguson's atmospheric black-and-white illustrations appear throughout this sweet and tender offering.-Diane Olivo-Posner, Long Beach Public Library, CA Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
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