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Book Review of The Dancing Skeleton

The Dancing Skeleton
The Dancing Skeleton
Author: Cynthia Defelice
Book Type: School Library Binding
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A picture book version of a folktale in which an dead but very ornery husband refuses to stay in his grave and sits in the parlor until he becomes a skeleton - but a visiting fiddler gets him to dance until his bones come apart and can be reburied. My copy has a jacket with a picture by the illustrator, Robert Anderson Parker. Very funny, and a good tale for Halloween.