New Releases by Alvin Schwartz

Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death -- they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories.

From autograph rhymes to street rhymes, from riddles to jump-rope chants, here is a wonderful collection of more than 250 folk poems to share with friends & family. Understand, rubberband?

H4Creak... Crash... BOO! 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. Now the beloved characters and adventures from this popular line of books come to life with I Can Read Book & Cassettes. Each package includes a best-selling beginning reader storybook and a lively audio recording featuring: Word-for-word narration Music and sound effects Turn-the-page signals on Side I Uninterrupted reading on Side 2

A collection of tall tales involving animals, the weather, narrow escapes, and many other topics.

A collection of five stories about a family os silly people, based on noodle folklore from America, India, Japan, Korea, and the Arabian Nights.

I Can Read Series Level 2: Reading with Help.

A collection of riddles of various traditional types including queer-word, hidden-answer, neck, leg, rebus, and tricky-question riddles.

Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.

Presents examples of folk speech used during the period 1815 to 1950. Identifies their meaning and the regions in which they were collected.

Traces the history and gives examples of puns, shaggy-dog stories, and other jokes from American humor of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Discusses the interrelationship of the city and its suburbs showing how the two must work together to plan for future needs.

A collection of tongue twisters, both traditional and new in prose and verse.

Multiple stories reprinted in an "80-pg Giant" special, All-Villain issue, including stories featuring Joker, Catwoman and the Penguin.

This handbook of indoor activities includes quiet and active games, arts and crafts, hobbies, science experiments, jokes, riddles, puzzles, tongue twisters, recipes, and lists of story books.

Sir Batman and Robin in King Authur's court!

Retellings of over two dozen tales about abandoned graveyards and ghastly deeds.