New Releases by Alvin Schwartz

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 humorous tales from a variety of sources.

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

A collection of traditional beliefs, popular sayings, and superstitions that can be used as games to determine the future.

A collection of six stories about a family of silly people, based on noodle folklore from America, Europe, and Asia Minor

This spooky addition to Alvin Schwartz''s popular books on American folklore is filled with tales of eerie horror and dark revenge that will make you jump with fright. There is a story here for everyone -- skeletons with torn and tangled flesh who roam the earth; a ghost who takes revenge on her murderer; and a haunted house where every night a bloody head falls down the chimney. Stephen Gammell''s splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of more than two dozen scary stories -- and even scary songs -- all just right for reading alone or for telling aloud in the dark. If You Dare!

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.

Brief text and illustrations introduce such strange creatures from American folklore as the snawfus, billdad, lufferlang, and tripodero.

This collection of the audacious yarns and lies that are part of our folklore tradition is "outrageous enough to please the most demanding young liars".-- H.

Entertain friends with these riddles, wisecracks, and practical jokes.

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.

Traces the growth of labor groups from pre-Revolutionary War societies to the AFL-CIO merger and discusses the organization and activities of unions today.

Covers the subject from planning the trip, estimating the costs, and acquiring equipment to setting up and breaking camp.

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

Discusses slums, poverty, lack of facilities, and other problems of expanding urban areas. Also describes, with actual cities as examples, renewal projects and the construction of new towns.

Surveys the projects and programs undertaken by a city''s government in its continued efforts toward community development.