No Go the Bogeyman
Subtitle: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock
Contributors: Well-illustrated (Illustrator)
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1998
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780701172008
First sentence: In a poem written in Germany in 1782, the poet Goethe evoked the Erlking, or the King of the Alders, wooing a boy who is riding with his father through the dark forest: 'You sweet child, come, come with me!' he calls out, 'we shall play lovely games together, there are flowers of many colours by the water's edge, my mother has many garments of gold.'