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What Do We Know About Zombies? by Meg Belviso

What Do We Know About Zombies?

Meg Belviso

Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · July 29, 2025

The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained.

Wonder & CuriositiesKids: Body, Mind & Spirit
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Who it’s for
Zombie folklore moves from Haitian accounts to changing cultural traditions and Western screen fame.
Themes
Zombie folklore and history, Cultural variations in zombie lore, Haitian stories of forced labor
Genres
Kids: Body, Mind & Spirit, Wonder & Curiosities

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About this book

The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Are zombies real, myth, or legend? Find out all we know about the history of zombies. Zombies—the undead—have long been a subject of fascination. But can the dead really be brought back to life? When explorer William Seabrook first recorded details of his travels in Haiti in 1929, he explained witnessing undead people working in the sugarcane fields there.

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He also wrote about Haitian stories that explained zombies as undead people who had been forced into labor. Since then, zombie lore has expanded and changed based on location and culture, and zombies have become a hot topic in Hollywood and popular media. They gained widespread Western interest when the movie Night of the Living Dead premiered in 1968. In this book, readers will learn about the folklore of zombies and all manner of the living dead, including how zombies continue to strike fear into the hearts of countless people.

Haitian Zombie Lore

Zombie folklore moves from Haitian accounts to changing cultural traditions and Western screen fame.

Come here for

  • Haitian stories of undead people forced into labor
  • How zombie lore varies by location and culture

Expect

  • The history of zombie folklore
  • Its path into Hollywood and popular media

Where it sits

Kids: Body, Mind & Spirit97%
Wonder & Curiosities42%

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Publisher categories

  • Kids: Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Wonder & Curiosities
  • Exploration & Discovery
Authors
Meg Belviso
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Published
July 29, 2025
Format
Paperback
Theme
Zombie folklore and history · Cultural variations in zombie lore · Haitian stories of forced labor
Reading lane
Kids: Body, Mind & Spirit