The Night the Heads Came | Resources

The Night the Heads Came For Further Reference

Daggett, Margaret L. "Recommended: William Sleator." English Journal 76 (March 1987): 93-94. Explains Sleator's appeal for high school students.

Davis, James, and Hazel Davis. Presenting William Sleator. New York: Macmillan, 1992. A critical study that discusses Sleator's life and how it relates to his fiction.

Lempke, Susan Dove. Booklist 92, 14 (March 15, 1996): 1252. Lempke says of The Night the Heads Came, "Adding a dollop of environmentalism, Sleator builds the tension and mixes it with gruesome imagery for a thought-provoking, page-turning exploration of alien life-forms."

Publishers Weekly 243, 8 (February 19, 1996): 217. Notes that The Nights the Heads Came has cliches.

Sleator, William. "Chaos, Strange Attractors, and Other Peculiarities in the English Classroom." In Authors' Insights: Turning Teenagers into Readers and Writers. Edited by Donald R. Gallo. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1992, pp. 43-52. Sleator explains how science fiction can encourage...
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