In a Dark, Dark Room (I Can Read Books) (School & Library Binding)

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Product Description

Creak...
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.

Now the beloved characters and adventures from this popular line of books come to life with I Can Read Book & Cassettes. Each package includes a best-selling beginning reader storybook and a lively audio recording featuring:

Word-for-word narration

Music and sound effects

Turn-the-page signals on Side I

Uninterrupted reading on Side 2 --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

About the Author

Alvin Schwartz is known for a body of work of more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explore everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. His collections of scary stories -- Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, Scary Stories 3, and two I Can Read Books, In A Dark, Dark Room and Ghosts! -- are just one part of his matchless folklore collection. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• School & Library Binding: 64 pages
• Publisher: Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0808537636
• ISBN-13: 978-0808537632
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,645,865 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Scary, April 4, 2002

By	Megan Allyn (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories (Audio Cassette)

This book is a collection of short scary stories for children, perfect for Halloween season. I remember reading these stories when I was younger and think that they where they scariest things. If you read the stories to the children, you could then have them come up with their own scary stories. Plus it is a great way to introduce the genre of mystery and suspense and teach the children what qualities a book must have to actually be a mystery. Most of all these short stories are fun to read and they are not so scary that a child would be left with nightmares, and they are short enough that they keep the child's attention long enough

5.0 out of 5 stars My daughter had one of these stories read at her wedding, May 27, 2008

By	Irvin Kanode (Tempe, AZ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories (Audio Cassette)

One of the stories in this book, The Green Ribbon, had such an impact on my daughter (when it was read to her in preschool) that she had it recited at her wedding.

My daughter wore a green ribbon around her neck which the groom untied to symbolize that they weren't hiding anything from each other.

It's such a romantic story--until the very last line...

4.0 out of 5 stars Loved it as a child, July 12, 2007

By	M. Padgett (Georgia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I loved this book when i was little. I used to check it out the library all the time. I bought it so one day my kids will be able to read it.