Urban Legends for Children

By Carl Soucy

Emma Fischer is a different teacher. She enjoys teaching life lessons through urban legends.
Miss Fischer's students are between 8 and 9 years old, so it is easy to teach students through fear.
With urban legends, Miss Fischer teaches her students to be well-behaved and obedient to their parents.
Read some of the urban legends Miss Fischer often tells her students.

• Language: English
• Publisher: 101 Seleções
• Release date: Feb 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463468043

Book preview

A rag doll story

When Emma Fischer was eight years old, her mother died.

She then went to live with an aunt named Penny.

Emma had never met Aunt Penny before.

The old woman had a pointed nose. And there was a huge wart on her nose's tip.

Aunt Penny's house had a room with a red door.

On the first day that Emma was living with Aunt Penny, the old woman said, Never go into the red room.

Emma's curiosity increased with this warning.

She found out where her aunt kept the key to the red room.

Aunt Penny used to watch TV after dinner, and like everyone else, she used to fall asleep on the couch after five minutes.

Emma took the key and entered the red room.

In the center of the room was a cauldron. Four candles were burning around the cauldron.

On the wall were several drawings of pentagrams and other mystical symbols.

In the corner, there was a wooden shelf with old books.

Emma let out a little squeak of horror when she saw a skull on the top of the shelf.

She turned to the side and saw a rag doll sitting on a chair.

Emma took the doll.

Did you like her, Emma? asked Aunt Penny, under the doorway.

The girl turned around, startled.

Yes, it is a beautiful doll, whose is it?

It is not about who owns it, but who she is.

Aunt Penny approached Emma and