The Wheels on the Bus and Other Horror Stories
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Discover the macabre side of children’s songs! Can’t stand listening to “The wheels on the bus” anymore? Do you get goosebumps upon hearing the first chords of “Itsy Bitsy Spider?” Do you want to run away crying when a child starts humming “If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands?” If so this comic book is perfect for you! Fifteen children’s songs were transformed into horror stories by some of Brazil’s most talented comics artists. You’ll never listen to these songs the same way again. And originally most of these songs are really horror stories. You’d have to be a real psychopath to happily sing about five ducklings who disappear one by one, much to their mother’s despair! Authors: Lucio Luiz, Ana Pepper, Caio Oliveira, Caio Zero, Carlos Gritti, Chairim, Flavio Soares, Isaque Sagara, Laudo Ferreira, Little Goat, Luiza Lemos, Mario Cau, Rodrigo Mazer, Samuel Bono, Thiago Krening, and Wagner Willian. |
Listen to the original songs
Three stories in the book are based on children’s songs that are very popular in Brazil, but which I believe are not well known in other countries: “I threw a stick at the cat” (which, by the way, is the title of the Brazilian edition for being the country’s most popular children’s song), “The cockroach says she has” and “March, soldier Paper Head”. In the Spotify playlist below, I was able to find an English version of each, with the last two having other names: “Mrs. Cockroach” and “Paper hat soldiers”, respectively. In the book, I preferred to use the literal translation of the name in Portuguese because it made more sense for the stories.
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