Schwartz, Alvin

Presents an illustrated collection of traditional folk rhymes, some composed by children.

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

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

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

A collection of forty-six tongue twisters.

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

A collection of spoonerisms, word plays, visual jokes and riddles, punctuation rhymes, nursery rhyme parodies, and other nonsense speech, verses, and stories compiled from folk sources around the country.

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

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

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