![]() So, story time hits that night and my daughter tells me "I want the story about the girl whose head falls off." I look at her blankly, wondering what the hell she's talking about and if she's somehow figured out the iPad's code and has been pulling up things on Youtube that she really shouldn't when she runs over to my bookcase and pulls this out. I read through the stories and was delighted to remember them, but the accompanying illustrations, were certainly a bit more than I thought my daughter could take based on her personality and decided perhaps it was better if I hid it for a bit. While I personally love the artwork, I would call it significantly scarier. So yeah, the illustrations were revised in recent years and instead of making them less scary (like that horrible revision of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark which I will not allow in my house because if anyone is reading it they will be as traumatized as I was a kid damn it all) it was made significantly creepier. I went online, ordered it and figured it would be fun to read. The stories weren't particularly scary and the illustrations looked very similar to Halloween decorations I remember from my childhood. She's also a child who has hid some of my books before because the cover was "too scary and I wanted to make sure it didn't bother anyone." I honestly figured anything remotely scary would not go over well… then I remembered a book I enjoyed as a kid. Mind you, most of the stories I read to her are cheery books with unicorns, talking animals and more than a dash of the color pink. Schwartz was survived by his wife and four children.My daughter finds it quite intolerable that I "read scary stories all the time" but that she's not allowed to. Schwartz died of lymphoma in Princeton, New Jersey on March 14, 1992, six weeks before his 65th birthday. Some of his other books, such as When I Grew Up Long Ago, were aimed at an older audience, and presented glimpses of life in the United States during the late 19th century and the early 20th century. The series was America's most frequently challenged book (or book series) for library inclusion of 1990-1999. He is best known for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series, which featured gruesome, nightmarish illustrations by Stephen Gammell. Others in this series included Tomfoolery, which featured wordplay Witcracks which was about smart-aleck riddles and jokes and Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat, about superstitions. During his professional writing career his work had been published by a variety of firms, including Lippincott, Bantam Books, Farrar Straus, and HarperCollins.Ī series of his books on folklore for children were illustrated by Glen Rounds and each featured a type of folklore: the first, A Twister of Twists, a Tangler of Tongues, was published in 1972. He reported for The Binghamton Press from 1951 to 1955. He received his bachelor's degree from Colby College and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. After a stint in the navy, Schwartz became interested in writing. Schwartz was born in life the son of Gussie and Harry Schwartz, a taxi driver. Alvin Schwartz (Ap– March 14, 1992) was an American author and journalist who wrote more than fifty books dedicated to and dealing with topics such as folklore and word play, many of which were intended for young readers.
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