The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

Presents a collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable. A Newbery Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Award Winner, & ALA Notable Children's Book. Reissue.

Award winning author Patricia McKissack comes from a family of skilled storytellers, who taught her to listen and observe and who encouraged her life-long love affair with words.
The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural was a 1993 Newbery Honor Book.  Pat also
received the Coretta Scott King Award in 1993 for The Dark Thirty.
Pat wishes she could have talked to her hero, Frederick Douglass, about his rise from slavery, his daring escape, and freedom -- at last!
If she was not an author, Pat would like to be an interior designer or an architect so she could tell stories through design.
Pat frequently collaborates on books with her husband, Fredrick.  They have three sons and live in
St. Louis, Missouri.