Halloween Stories

OVIDEO, Fla. – A gaggle of children gather around a man named Ty Karnitz with a book called “Big Green Monster” waiting for him to begin. 

“I enjoy making the children laugh and I love seeing them get involved with reading,” said Karnitz.

Karnitz is the story time reader at the Barns and Noble in the Ovideo shopping market on Oct. 21.This was his first story time and the store plans to keep it going every Thursday morning. 

He had the kids pretending to see ghosts and monsters and themed his stories with the upcoming holiday, Halloween.  The children were screaming for the monsters to go away, and making hiccup noises as Karnitz read another story called “Skeleton Hiccups.”

“My daughter seemed to have a lot of fun,” said Samantha Gasch, “I wouldn’t mind bringing her again.”

The turnout for this story time was not very large.  There were about 4 kids ranging from the ages of 3 and 5.

“I’m going to tell my friends to bring their children next time. It’s a good activity for the kids,” said Diane Kersey.

Karnitz continued his story time by having the children go on a ghost hunt, telling them to yell every time they saw one.  For the next 5 minutes all you heard were kids yelling “ghost!” over and over again.

Children left with smiles on their faces, wanting to hear more stories from Karnitz.