“alvin schwartz”

Seven traditional stories are given a chilling yet comic touch in this collection that features colorful illustrations. An ALA Notable Children's Book.Creak...Crash...B"OO Shivering skeletons, ghostly pirates, chattering corpses, and haunted graveyards...all to chill your bones Share these seven s... More

MEMOIR / METAPHYSICS Writer Alvin Schwartz received a great deal of attention from fans when he began talking publicly about his seventeen-year stint writing Superman and Batman comics. One of the individuals who contacted him was no ordinary fan, but a seven-foot Buddhist monk named Thongden, a tul... More

MEMOIR / METAPHYSICS"Alvin Schwartz is clearly one of the most amazing people ever to work in--maybe even out of--the nutty field of comic books. Channeling first Superman, then Batman, into an astonishing inner life and an equally astounding outer one, Alvin was living his life as a graphic novel b... More

The dark is alive with sounds: a creak, a thump, a moan--or is it just the wind? Filled with chilling shrieks and bloodcurdling laughter, Schwartz's new collection of 25 terrifying tales filled with stories of swamp creatures, strange dreams that come true, and even children raised by wild animals. ... More

"Do you believe in ghosts? Some people do . . . " These spooky -- and funny -- tales about singing ghosts, toast-eating ghosts, and ghosts no one even guesses are sure to send shivers up and down your spine.Why not retell them to your friends and see if you can make their spines tingle, too?... More

Feeling scared is fun with these seven spine-tingling tales of skeletons, pirate ghosts, and haunted graveyards.Creak...Crash...B"OO Shivering skeletons, ghostly pirates, chattering corpses, and haunted graveyards...all to chill your bones Share these seven spine-tingling stories in a dark, dark r... More

Filled with folktales of eerie horror and dark revenge, this collection contains stories about skeletons that roam the Earth with torn and tangled flesh; a ghost who takes revenge on her murderer; and a haunted house where a bloody head falls down the chimney each night. Illustrated with drawings fr... More

For fans of things that go bump in the night, here is a bewitching treat. "Not since "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" has there been a collection of horror stories as well suited for children."--"School Library Journal." Illustrations.All those who enjoyed shuddering their way through Alvin Schwa... More

A tongue twister will twist you tongue and make you laugh. Just say it three times as fast as you can.There is a spiderinside the ciderbeside her.Alivin Schwartz presents a delightful collection of forty-six easy-to-read tongue twisters that will challange the smoothest talkers. And he's even includ... More

A collection of 41 folk rhymes, taunts, and insults that have been chanted, sung, and shouted by generations of children throughout the United States. 'Children will appreciate the humor of the rhymes and the illustrations. Another I Can Read hit.' --SLJ. ... More