Mouth Open, Story Jump Out

The delightfully explicit title of Mouth Open, Story Jump Out sets the tone for this fine collection of eight stories with a West Indian setting. Well-told stories about the supernatural have a special 'hold' over Junior age children, and these, with their Caribbean setting, are especially attractive. Titles such as 'Le Diable' and 'The Loup Garou' slip intriguingly off the tongue and tease young imaginations even before the stories are begun. Every culture has its 'witch' stories and the version here, woven around the 'soucayant', is a particularly scary one. An enjoyable set of sinister tales, which will have many a young reader insisting on having the light left on at night after reading them!