Schwartz, Alvin

More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible scary things.

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.

A collection of forty-six tongue twisters for children in preschool to first grade.

Presents instructions for speaking thirteen secret languages, including Pig Latin, one of the best known and easiest codes to learn, and Boontling, developed by people in a California town.

A collection of humorous tales from a variety of sources.

A collection of fifty legends, tall tales, true stories, and amusing anecdotes about bears and their encounters with humans.

A collection of riddles selected from folklore around the world.

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

Presents legends, true stories, and tall tales about the hunting, finding, and losing of treasure, including pirate treasure and treasure not yet uncovered.

Telling scary stories is something people have always done. it is an oldfashioned way of having a good time. Nobody tells scary stories better than Alvin Schwartz, and here, for the very first time, his three most spine-tingling books are together in one volume. Includes the three books, Scary stories to tell in the dark, More scary stories to tell in the dark and Scary stories 3.