Dahl, Michael

One morning Ella gets an odd text message from a friend, about a strange girl who is showing up in Ella's selfies, and as the messages keep coming the girl with a monkey head keeps getting closer and closer--and that is only one of the chilling tales in this collection of scary stories.

There are plenty of chills in this compilation of four separately published books of scary stories: The stranger on the stairs, The doll that waved goodbye, The voice in the boys' room, and The phantom on the phone.

Contains six scary stories for children.

In rhyming text, a little boy, home from a game, bids goodnight to all the sights and sounds of a baseball game.

Hidden in the roots of the Word Tree is a single book, so evil it can drain the life from the Librarian, and the Collector has come to steal it, so it is up to the Diamond Page to find a way to defeat him and use the power of the last word to restore the Librarian.

When Rose and Anna stop to investigate a strange lending library that has suddenly appeared, they find themselves trapped by the monstrous Digest Bird, and only Rose's quick thinking, a copy of Rose Red and Snow White, and the Red Librarian can save them and the other children trapped in the nest.

Lizzy borrows a "The Saurus" from the library to help her write her report on dinosaurs, but when a colossal paper Tyrannosaurus unfolds itself from the pages of the book, it requires the Librarian to contain the monster and reclaim the book for the Library of Doom.

Slate is a Cliffhanger, a page who retreives books from the skyscraper tall shelves of the Library of Doom, but when he opens a particular book located in the forbidden Black Shelves he releases the evil Scrawler, who defaces him, and only with the help of the blind Blue Librarian can he correct his mistake.

After an explosion splits open the Treasure Vaults of the Library a Page seems to be missing, and it is up to the Librarian to find out what happened before the evil Watch-Man turns everything to dust with the Topaz of Time.

Contains an introduction to animals that live under great depths, both earth and water, presented in simple text with illustrations, and including information on the aardvark, parakeet, squid, sperm whale, and others. Includes facts about each animal.