00951    a2200169   4500001000700000020001500007040003200022100001400054245002600068300000800094362000900102520059600111650002100707650001100728650002600739650001600765123117  a0590120417  cEscola Canadense de Niteroi  aDr. Seuss10aWhat Was I Scared Of?  bil.0 a1997  aWhat's a pair of empty green trousers doing standing by itself in the woods? Or riding a bike in Grin-itch? Or fishing on Roover River? The narrator certainly doesn't want to find out but wherever he goes, he's haunted by the spooky empty pants. Finally, when the two find themselves hiding from each other in a Snide bush the terrified narrator realizes, "I was just as strange to him as he was strange to me." This little Seussian gem, plucked from the back of The Sneetches and Other Stories, shines on it own as it delivers a timeless message about fear and tolerance. (Grade Level: 2-4) 4aStories in rhyme 4aRhymes 4aChildren's Literature 4aFacing Fear