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  Title

  In a dark, dark room, and other scary stories

  Author

  Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-  

  Publisher:

  Harper & Row,

  Pub date:

  c1984.

  Pages:

  63 p. :

  ISBN:

  0060252715

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    Type/Location	Call Number	Copies	Format
    Due:  May 26, 2012	J 398.2 SCH	1	Book

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  In a dark, dark room, and other scary stories
  Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-
  
  
  

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  Personal Author:

  Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-

  Title:

  In a dark, dark room, and other scary stories / retold by Alvin Schwartz ; illustrated by Dirk Zimmer.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Harper & Row, c1984.

  Physical description:

  63 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

  Series:

  (An I can read book)

  Contents:

  The teeth (Surinam or Dutch Guiana) -- In the graveyard (short version of the traditional song Old woman all skin and bone) -- The green ribbon (Europe) -- In a dark, dark room (England and America) -- The night it rained (loosely based on the folktale of the ghostly hitchhiker) -- The pirate (British) -- The ghost of John (Stockton, Calif.).

  Summary:

  Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries.

  Children's subject:

  Folklore.

  Children's subject:

  Horror stories.

  Children's subject:

  Ghosts--Folklore.

  Children's subject:

  Short stories.

  Added author:

  Zimmer, Dirk,

  key:

  ocm09557478

  ISBN:

  0060252715

  ISBN:

  9780060252717

  ISBN:

  006025274X (lib. bdg.)

  ISBN:

  9780060252748 (lib. bdg.)

  ISBN:

  1559942339 (set)

  ISBN:

  9781559942331 (set)

  ISBN:

  0064440907 (pbk.)

  ISBN:

  9780064440905 (pbk.)