The Man Who Tricked a Ghost By: Laurence Yep Pictures by: Isadore Seltzer- Multicultural

The Man Who tricked a Ghost by: Laurence Yep
Pictures by: Isadore Seltzer- Multicultural

This was a really funny book. The book was about a man name Sung who was not scared of anything. He would have picnics in graveyards and take naps in haunted houses. One day he went to visit his friend and stayed for a very long time. It was dark when Sung decided to leave and his friend told him that he should stay the night because many people have vanished traveling on the road Sung needed to travel in order to get home late at night; however, Sung was not scared. When Sung was traveling on the road a ghost jumped out at him. The ghost asked Sung who he was and Sung flipped the question on the ghost and asked the ghost the same question. The ghost told Sung that he was a ghost and Sung told the ghost that he (Sung) was also a ghost. Sung told the ghost they must be cousins. The ghost followed Sung all the way back to his town and on the way there Sung asked the ghost different things about being a ghost. The ghost told Sung never let anyone spit on you because you can not change your form once someone spits on you. When Sung and the ghost arrived in Sung’s town that is when Sung tricked the ghost. Sung tricked the ghost into turning into a ram and when he did Sung spat on the ghost, so the ghost could not change his form. Sung sold the ram for 1,500 copper coins.

This book could be read to students to teach them not to be scared of things. Also, you could use this book to teach students about the Chinese culture. This book was one of the first ghost stories to appear in print in China.