Book description
Bored with sleeping soundly? Fed up with sweet dreams? Well this is the
book for you! Deadly Tales features two nightmare urban legends that
you'll pray aren't true. In "Raijin", who will be brave enough
to dare to go topless in the park in a thunderstorm? Raijin gonna get
you... In "Woman in the Mirror", the dare is simple. Just say
the words into the mirror 13 times. Nothing will happen, it's just an
urban legend, right? Which one will you dare to read first? Roy Apps
is the author of fifty children's books, including The Twitches, Time
Spinner and the hugely popular How To Handle series for Scholastic. Most
recently he has written The Fang Gang series for Bloomsbury and the
Crime Files series for Franklin Watts. His novel The Secret Summer of
Daniel Lyons won The Writers' Guild Children's Book Award and was
shortlisted for the Whitbread Awards. It is now a successful musical.
Roy writes extensively for radio, theatre and TV. In 2001 he was awarded
a BAFTA for his children's TV work, which includes Byker Grove, The
Ghost Hunter and Barmy Aunt Boomerang. Roy visits schools, libraries and
bookshops to read from his books and to share the secrets of The Shed in
Your Head . He runs Writing Projects for all ages and over the last few
years has helped young and new writers make books, stage plays, films,
performance poetry and most recently, an opera.
