Stories for Around the Campfire
by Ray Harriot
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Author: Ray HarriotEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1986-12
ISBN: 0961765305
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Campfire Pub Co
Book Reviews of Stories for Around the Campfire
Book Review: Don't worry. These won't cause nightmares...
Summary: 3 Stars
As the cover of this book would suggest, Ray Harriot's collection of original campfire stories is meant for Boy Scouts, although they can be adapted for telling to other kinds of youth groups.
Being used to working with older youths myself, I found some of these stories (particularly the first ten) too silly for use with the 13-and-up crowd. That doesn't mean they are not good stories. They have potential, but are better suited for Cub Scouts and Webelos. An example is "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf," which is every bit as obvious as its title sounds.
The latter fourteen tales are more ghostly and weird, but not violent or very scary. I'd compare the plots to something one might see in a "Scooby-Doo" short. Still, youths under the age of 14 will like them, particularly if told in a dynamic, animated fashion. Harriot offers a variety of themes here, from Indian legends and ghosts from long-ago battles that seem plausible, to the familiar "dare-to-spend-the-night-in-a-haunted-house" story with a nice surprise ending. At least these tales are original, so they're worth adding to your collection.
Besides the general dissatisfaction I had with the joke stories in the first part of the book, production elements cost this title another star. The dialogue could use some tweaking, and many pages are littered with distracting typesetting errors. Ten pages in the beginning of the book are spent on storytelling advice that could best be summed up as "Duh!" A whopping eight blank pages are left at the tail end, each bearing the heading "Notes," and even the back cover is blank. That having been said, this ten-year-old book could shine with a redo.
-Byron C. Justice,
author of Haunted Camps
and Violent Night
Summary of Stories for Around the Campfire
Complete guide to telling campfire stories.A collection of Boy Scout oriented campfire stories for telling around a campfire. Where else? There are 24 stories -- about 10 that are geared to younger children and 14 that are for older children.
This book has been a best selling Boy Scout book for almost 25 years.
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