The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

""I'm not afraid of you," said the little old lady. "What do you want anyway?"
"We've come to scare you!"
"You can't scare me," said the little old lady.
"Then what's to become of us?" The pumpkin head suddenly looked unhappy."

Synopsis

After a long walk gathering herbs and spices, nuts and seeds the little old lady is returning through the woods one night when she runs into a series of disembodied clothing items and a pumpkin head who make quite a bit of noise as they follow her home.

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Linda Williams

Williams is a retired preschool teacher and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Megan Lloyd

Lloyd is the illustrator for over 40 children's books including two reviewed for this month's All Hallows Read list: White's Too Many Pumpkins and Williams' The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything. Scenes from her farm and drawings of her farm animals are included in over 35 of the books she's illustrated.

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World Relevance

This is a delightful story to read and act out with primary school-aged children! The Little Old Lady deals with her fear in a surprising way which will leave young children giggling. There are endless ways to use this book for learning from gross motor skill development to literacy sequencing skills.

Learning Connections

• Halloween Activities: Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, The Inspired Treehouse; both physical movement and craft activity!
• Scarecrow Drawing Game, The Inspired Treehouse; with virtual learning directions!
• Digital Word Match, Reading is Fundamental
  
• Shape Scarecrow Craft, No Time for Flash Cards
  

Ages: 3 - 7 years old; Emerging Readers, 32 pages. A little old lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with a pumpkin head, a tall black hat and other spooky objects that follow her though the dark woods trying to scare her.

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