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In a Dark, Dark Room Reprint Edition
Contributor(s): Schwartz, Alvin (Retold By), Zimmer, Dirk (Illustrator)

ISBN: 0000977383 ISBN-13: 9780064440905
Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books

OUR PRICE: $4.19

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Published: October 1985
* Out of Print *

Annotation: Seven traditional stories are given a chilling yet comic touch in this collection that features colorful illustrations. An ALA Notable Children's Book.

Additional Information

Library of Congress Subjects:
- 01

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Horror
- Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic - General
- Juvenile Fiction | Readers - Beginner

Dewey: Horror tales.

LCCN: Tales.

Age Level: 0.25

Grade Level: 0.20

Guided Reading: 0

Awards: Garden State Children's Book Awards, Winner, Easy-To-Read, 1987
Buckeye Children's Book Award, Winner, Grades K-2, 1987
North Carolina Children's Book Award, Winner, Picture Book, 1992
Virginia Readers Choice Award, Winner, Primary, 1988
Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award, Winner, Picture Book, 1987

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
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 room.

Contributor Bio(s): Schwartz, Alvin: -

Alvin Schwartz is known for his more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explore everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. Don't miss his other Scary Stories collections, including More Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark and Scary Stories 3.

Schwartz, Alvin: -

Alvin Schwartz is known for a body of work of more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explores everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. His collections of scary stories--Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Scary Stories 3, and two I Can Read books, In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories and Ghosts!--are just one part of his matchless folklore collection.

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