Note: Review of the reillustrated 2017 version For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleI found a copy of this book at the library the other day. The title sounded familiar, but I didn't recognize the illustrations, so I figured it was a book I'd heard of but never read. I just got aroun...
Genre: Short Stories / Horror / Drama / Monsters Year Published: 1984 Year Read: 2017Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Now, I have been introduced to Alvin Schwartz’s works before through his famous and controversial “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” series and after I found out that Alvi...
My eight year old niece liked this collection of short stories and folk tales about spiders, declaring "Arachne's Gift" and "How the Spider Got His Waistline" to be the best stories in the group. She read this book on her own, which required some determination on her part, because many of these sto...
An interesting review in the New York Review of Books of Percival Everett’s Assumption and the approach of my niece Claire’s sixth birthday came together recently to bring this book to my attention. In the course of compiling an Everett bibliography, I discovered that he had written a children's boo...
The Scary Book isn't scary at all. Of course, it has ghosts, witches and other unusual things, but it is really a funny book with stories, poems, jokes, riddles and more.The one story called "Wait 'Til Martin Comes" is one I've read two times before in two other books, but they were different versio...
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