One of my favorite Children’s books growing up in the 4rd grade was The Ghost On Saturday Night, written by Sid Fleischman with terrific illustrations by Erich Von Schmidt.
This was the tale of a young boy named Opie who was trying to save up money to buy a Horse Saddle. You see, His Great-Aunt Etta had promised him that when he saved up enough money to buy a good saddle, she’d buy him the horse to go underneath it!
Unfortunately, Opie was a small boy, and all the really good after-school jobs went to the bigger kids, but there was one talent that Opie had that no one else did- He knew his way around town like the back of his hand. He could walk anywhere in town blindfolded, and so his way of earning money was to run errands or guide people around town whenever there was a thick fog in the town (which there usually was) !
One night during an extremely thick fog, he is asked by the barber to guide a csutomer to his hotel. The stranger is a chilling, scary looking man, who says nothing, but gives Opie a free pass to attend a show he is performing. Opie later finds out the man is Professor Pepper, a famous GHOST-RAISER, and that Saturday Night he planned on ressurecting the Ghost of Outlaw Crookneck John!
"That night, Opie went, and it turned out to be the scariest night of his life!"
