Grandpa's Ghost Stories

I'm so happy to finally have found it for my children I searched for this book for years, I'm so happy to finally have found it for my children. James Flora wrote and illustrated only a handful of children's books and they are all gems. This one arrived quickly and the condition is almost like brand new, even though it has been out of print for decades.. A wonderful childhood memory I used to practically live at my local library as a child and this was one of my favorite books to check out and read over and over. I was so excited when I accidentally stumbled across it here on Amazon. Cost a bundle, but worth it to have a piece of my childhood back. Fascinating This was a gift for my grown son who read this when he was around seven or eight in elementary school. It made a lasting impression on him then and now.

Grandpa's Ghost Stories has been the most sought-after of his children's books, and Feral House is pleased to announce the first reprint since its original publication in 1978. Grandpa's Ghost Stories is a spooky (and silly) delight for all ages. Perhaps better known for his brilliant and madcap illustrations that graced the covers of hundreds of jazz and classical record albums in the 1940s and 50s, Jim Flora also wrote and illustrated seventeen popular books for children. This edition includes an introduction by writer, radio personality and cultural historian Irwin Chusid, who has published several books of Flora's artworks and illustrations, and also runs JimFlora.. Jim Flora's fantastically illustrated books captivated kids throughout the 1960s and 70s, so much so that secondhand copies sell for exorbitant sums. These ghoulish and amusing stories and wildly inventive illustrations will keep readers shivering. The illustrations bring the tall tales to life with Flora's incomparable humor and wit. In this book, Grandpa comforts his grandson during a fierce thunderstorm by telling him stories about far scarier things, including a hungry werewolf and an evil witch who turns boys into spiders

A follow-up, The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora, co-authored with (former KFAI radio host) Barbara Economon, was published by Fantagraphics in February 2007. James Flora is best known for his wild jazz and classical album covers for Columbia Records (late 1940s) and RCA Victor (1950s). Chusid and Economon serve a

About the AuthorJames Flora is best known for his wild jazz and classical album covers for Columbia Records (late 1940s) and RCA Victor (1950s). Few realize, however, that Flora (1914-1998) was also a prolific fine artist with a devilish sense of humor and a flair for juxtaposing playfulness, absurdity and violence.Irwin Chusid (born April 22, 1951, Newark, New Jersey) is a journalist, music historian, radio personality and self-described "landmark preservationist." Since 1975 Chusid has been a DJ on free-form radio station WFMU, where he continues to host an unpredictable and idiosyncratic weekly program whose content he calls "genre-surfing tokenism"Chusid chronicled the overlooked work of innovative record cover artist/commercial illustrator Jim Flora in his colorful 180-page trade paperback, The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora (Fanta