Richard Peck

I mean, definitely pre-kids life, my husband and I did a bunch of hiking, and it's now at, we're starting to do a bit more now that our youngest is six and he can kinda hang for a little bit.

So my other book I brought was A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck.

Mm-hmm.

Which is a YA novel, but I will encourage all ages to read it 'cause it's hilarious.

i agree

um and once upon a midnight scary originally aired on cbs october 21st 1979 as part of what became the cbs library series and rather than adapting one complete story it dramatizes portions of three so we have richard peck's the ghost belonged to me first published in 1975 Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, first published in 1820, and John Belair's The House with a Clock in Its Walls, originally published in 1973.

So that combination alone fascinates me because you have two relatively contemporary children's books sitting alongside one of the foundational pieces of American supernatural literature.

And holding the whole thing together is just this wonderfully strange Vincent Price energy.

So we'll get into the stories a little bit.

So the first one is The Ghost Belonged to Me.

So it comes from Richard Peck's 1975 novel, and we meet Alexander, a boy who discovers a ghostly girl connected with his family's barn.

But this isn't really a malevolent ghost story.