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In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories (I Can Read Book-Level 2)
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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.
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.
Paperback, 64 pages
Published
October 2nd 1985
by HarperCollins
(first published March 14th 1984)
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From the author of middle school favorite and frequently challenged Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Alvin Schwartz’ In A Dark, Dark Room is a collection of seven stories written with a younger elementary school audience in mind. The Foreword sets the stage in describing why scary stories are liked and sets up the premise for the book “when there is no real danger, feeling scared is fun.” And it is fun.
The Zimmer’s illustrations incorporate the important spooky elements of the stories to demon...more
The Zimmer’s illustrations incorporate the important spooky elements of the stories to demon...more
This book is hands down one of my favorite children's books. My kindergarten teacher read this to us Halloween (1989) and I fell in love with it. The story of the little girl named Jenny with the ribbon around her neck really stuck with me. In middle school and high school I started asking people if they ever read a book with that story in it, or heard of it. No one did. As an adult I was determined to find it but I didn't remember what it looked like. Every Halloween season I would look in book...more
Apr 01, 2012
Goge (BARRONS) le Moning Maniac,
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In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Dirk Zimmer is a classic easy reader & short Halloween compilation. Schwartz brings scary stories plus a song & poem to level one readers in an effective mix sure to please. Dirk Zimmer's appropriately creepy illustrations have enough humor to entertain the younger audience for these stories. The introduction & info on where the stories originated are helpful and set the tone well. The Green Ribbon, The Te...more
When I was about seven, I went to an after-school program where we could play or read books. One day, I took this book off the shelf. I don't know if I read any story other than The Green Ribbon. That one is the one I remember. That one is the one that traumatized me. You may think I'm kidding, but I was so disturbed by the story I remember leaving the little library area to go and stand by the front door, just hoping my mother would arrive to pick me up, pacing anxiously. I couldn't sleep for d...more
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Being that it is Halloween I remembered this classic kid book. It's to funny to think of it all these years later. The book is filled with short stories. To short to be scary but at a young age it sure did scare me. It's funny....I was baby sitting some kids down the block and they wanted me to read a book. So I picked this book. I read the tale about a girl who wears a ribbon around her neck but would not ever take it off. She would not tell anyone why she wore it all the time until she was on...more
i liked the story of the girl whose head falls off so much that i got a baby doll when i was 3, named her Jenny, and tied a green ribbon around her neck, and then i'd untie it and i'd make her head fall off. when my parents figured out what it was supposed to be, they knew i would be weird forever.
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Oct 06, 2007
Bilgewater
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5 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
everyone
This is one of my favorite books of all time and one of the first books I ever read. The illustrations are spectacular and very creepy, and the stories are wonderfully told twists on classics. Perfect for kids and new readers, as well as anyone who wants a gentle but spooky read.
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This is an Easy Reader which I remember from my childhood. I really like the stories in this book when I was a child, and I still enjoy them today! This book is kind of scary which may not be for all children. The stories are short, and they are definitely creepy. The illustrations also add to the creepiness of this book. I would recommend this book around the time of Halloween. This book is an Easy Reader, but because the content is a bit scary, I would recommend it for a little bit of an older...more
I haven't read this book in years, but the reason I give it five stars is because it is one book that totally stands out to me from my childhood. I definitely remember reading "The Green Ribbon" story as my favorite in the book. Basically,it was about a girl who always wore a green ribbon tied around her neck. As she grew older and fell in love with a boy that she later married, she always kept it a secret as to why she wore it. He always asked, but she would never tell. Finally, when she was ol...more
This book gave me the willies way back in first grade. It could very well be the first actual horror book I read. In fact, when my family moved to a new home and school district, this book got packed up with my belongings and I never returned it to the library. That would be some crazy overdue fee! I wish that I still had the book... Check out the video link for a narration of my favorite story in the book!
The Teeth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOZvD...
...and a few more, too...
The Green Ribbon...more
The Teeth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOZvD...
...and a few more, too...
The Green Ribbon...more
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Oh, the memories! I remember my first grade teacher reading this book to me. VERY VERY scary. There were some scary stories which I somehow forgotten over my childhood/teenhood, but the one story I ALWAYS remembered and would randomly replay in my head is the story of THE GREEN RIBBON.
THE GREEN RIBBON............so it's about this girl named Jenny who always wore a green scarf/ribbon around her neck. Jenny marries a boy and the boy always asks Jenny why she has the scarf on. Jenny simply just sa...more
THE GREEN RIBBON............so it's about this girl named Jenny who always wore a green scarf/ribbon around her neck. Jenny marries a boy and the boy always asks Jenny why she has the scarf on. Jenny simply just sa...more
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I read this book when I was a little kid and it definitely helped me develop the type of stories I love now. These are pretty dark stories for a child to read, my favorite is "The Girl with the Green Ribbon," but overall I enjoyed them.
I went searching for this book because I brought up that story recently with a friend of mine, and I still remembered it relatively well. So I'd have to classify this as a classic because not all stories can stick with you the way these stories have stuck with me...more
I went searching for this book because I brought up that story recently with a friend of mine, and I still remembered it relatively well. So I'd have to classify this as a classic because not all stories can stick with you the way these stories have stuck with me...more
My 7 year old son loves everything scary and this is a great book for beginner readers (1st & 2nd grade) that we found at the library & then bought on amazon. There were a few words he had to spell out that I helped him with, but over all, the book is spaced out well, and repetition of text is used. This is a book that we'll now definitely pull off the bookshelf again especially around Halloween and we will look out for more in the series! There were I think, 7 stories which were twists...more
Aug 21, 2012
Dolly
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3 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
beginning readers and parents reading with them
Our girls have been reading Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz this summer and they love the tales. When we saw this kit at our local library, with a paperback book and CD, I just knew it would be a hit.
We listened to the stories on our way home and the spooky music and eerie narrative was creepy to listen to. I read the book once I got home and noticed that the illustrations weren't too creepy and that there are cute cats and dogs in...more
We listened to the stories on our way home and the spooky music and eerie narrative was creepy to listen to. I read the book once I got home and noticed that the illustrations weren't too creepy and that there are cute cats and dogs in...more
Alvin Schwartz has long been for young readers one of the best tellers of stories that are truly scary, and in this book he has tailored that ability to frighten for an even younger audience: the emerging chapter-book reader.
One of the best things about Alvin Schwartz's scary stories is that the best ones really do raise goosebumps on one's skin, making chills run up and down one's spine and raising a little bit of paranoid fear about what could be lurking around the next corner of one's own h...more
One of the best things about Alvin Schwartz's scary stories is that the best ones really do raise goosebumps on one's skin, making chills run up and down one's spine and raising a little bit of paranoid fear about what could be lurking around the next corner of one's own h...more
This is one of my favorite children's books. I used to love to read it around Halloween-time especially. My favorite story was the one about Jenny, the girl who wore the green ribbon around her neck. The story about the men with the exceedingly long teeth still creeps me out (long teeth and long fingernails are just super-creepy to me). I just re-read this a few years back and of course, it was not at all scary now, but still pretty classically cute.
I remember reading this book when I was younger, and I remember being both surprised and delighted over how original and scary the stories were. There is a story in the book about a girl that wears a scarf around her neck and never takes it off...I won't give anything away, but that story has stuck with me all these years later as one of the most chilling short stories I've ever read. I highly recommend this book for horror lovers of all ages.
This story scared the crap out of me as a kid. I mean the "My head will randomly fall off for no particular reason and there's nothing I can do about it!" kind of scared! Irrational. It also made me have some very frightening dreams that I still remember to this day.
This may not have the same effect on you, but if you choose to read this book and suddenly scary things start to happen just remember...
"I told you you'd be sorry!!"
This may not have the same effect on you, but if you choose to read this book and suddenly scary things start to happen just remember...
"I told you you'd be sorry!!"
I read and heard this book when I was very, very young. It's worth being on my list because I liked it so much. It got me wanting to read more from a very young age. I think I was around 6 when I first heard these stories. The funny thing is that I only read them once and they stuck to me. My favorite story is the one with the girl that has a ribbon around her neck. I was shocked how the author is so straight forward in his stories.
While reading a totally unrelated book, I came across a description of the Bloody Mary game (I'm sure we all remember cowering in front of a mirror, daring each other to chant those words). I was instantly thrown back in time, and this book came to the forefront of my memory. How could I have ever forgotten the girl in The Green Ribbon?! A must read! (Although, thinking back, I probably shouldn't have read this as young as I did)
Oct 14, 2012
Krista
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5 of 5 stars
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This book is for kids average age of 5 /6 and up any younger and I think it will scare them. In a Dark, Dark Room is a collection of scary stories that my 9 and 10 year old just love. Our favorite, The Green Ribbon. You can buy this book at Barnes and Noble on Sale during Halloween. If you are looking for a creepy book that kids will love, scary story for a camp out this is a wonderful book to own!
This is a collection of several horror stories. It begins well by explaining to the reader that the fun of scary stories is feeling scared when there is no danger. Then the stories began. Even for young children, these would not be scary. The only one I kind of liked was the one with Jim at the cemetery where the other boy gave him a sweater.
This is a young reader, but it is not a good book.
This is a young reader, but it is not a good book.
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Hey, if it gets my reluctant 6 year old to read, it's a win, right?
My family and I love this book, but I should warn you, you have to be a little twisted to enjoy it. Parents should read it first to see if they thought their kids would be scared.
On the other hand, my kids read it over and over again, we finally bought it when I found it on the bargain shelf at Barnes and Noble today.
My family and I love this book, but I should warn you, you have to be a little twisted to enjoy it. Parents should read it first to see if they thought their kids would be scared.
On the other hand, my kids read it over and over again, we finally bought it when I found it on the bargain shelf at Barnes and Noble today.
My daughter and I read this book. We found it to be kinda funny with scary, spooky stories. She was able to read the book without error and enjoyed reading each page. This book can be used in the classroom for individual interest reading for Level 2 practice. It can also be used to encourage students to write their own short, spooky stories for a writing assignment after reading the book.
This book has multi short stories: The Teeth, In the Graveyard, The Green Ribbon, In a Dark, Dark Room, The Night it Rained, The Pirate and The Ghost of John
This one might be a little too scary for some children but I've been reading this one my son since he was 4 (he's now 6) and he loves it. My favorite story is The Green Ribbon.
This one might be a little too scary for some children but I've been reading this one my son since he was 4 (he's now 6) and he loves it. My favorite story is The Green Ribbon.
My daughter, who's in preschool, wanted some scary books to read after Halloween. This one is meant for beginning readers, but I found it worked really well as one for me to read aloud to her. She doesn't seem to think it's scary, though. She seems pretty much unscare-able, at least as far as books go.
I think that Alvin did a nice job with maiking all the parts go back to the title. That nothing was just to be said but to bring the book back togethre again. It's almost like a puzzle. But it's best to read this book around Hallween to scare little kids a bit.Overall i love its way with words.
Seven supposedly scary stories for young children. Some are too silly, but three of them are kinda nice: "The Pirate", "The Night it Rained", and the one I enjoyed most: "The Green Ribbon". It can be used for Story Time, with the advantage that you can choose to read only one or two stories.
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Alvin Schwartz was the author of more than fifty books dedicated to and dealing with topics such as folklore and word play, many of which were intended for young readers. He is often confused with another Alvin Schwartz, who wrote Superman and Batman daily comics strips and a novel titled The Blowtop.
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