Kindle Edition Amazon Amazon Category:  Halloween Publisher: Amazon Digital Services, Inc ISBN-10:  B00EIDVJCS Type: Fiction Pages: 312 Copyright: August 12, 2013 Price: $2.50 (eBook) Angry dragons, butt kicking gnomes, a mean-spirited witch, and a quest to find the lost Elves As settlers began filling the landscape, no home near the tree was ever raided by the Natives; they knew, through the tales of their elders, about the evil spirits that dwelled within the tree. Horses shied as ghostly shadows floated across the road toward the gnarled tree. Parents used the folklore as a disciplinary advantage; no child wanted to be eaten by the Hobble Knobble Gobble Tree. As time went by, the homesteaders had a tendency to forget and let down their guard; a child only disappeared every twenty-five years . . .more or less.

The Hobble Knobble Gobble Tree
Professor William Holt wrote:
When I was eight or nine, the four Great Books were Alice, The Water Babies, The Wind in the Willows, and Stuart Little. I don't know what the four Great Books will be for future generations, but if The Hobble, Knobble, Gobble Tree proves as popular with children everywhere as it deserves to, joining the Harry Potter books and who knows what else, college curricula will need revising and the name of Camille Singleton will become a household word.
You won't be disappointed. Or if you are, tell me why. I think it's a sheer, somewhat horrific delight. If a sundew or a Venus' fly trap can eat a bug, why can't a tree eat a kid?
Hey, it's no scarier than Hansel and Gretel or The Juniper Tree. And the children I know LOVE to be scared!
Professor Holt specialized in Creative Writing and British Literature at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas. He taught three writing classes and two that encompassed the entire range of British Literature.