In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories : Reillustrated Edition. A Halloween Book for Kids

Now available in a reillustrated edition, this delightfully creepy level 2 I Can Read classic is full of memorable stories like the one about the girl who always wore a green ribbon around her neck…

From shivering skeletons to haunted graveyards, beginning readers will be thrilled by these seven spine-tingling Level Two I Can Read stories to share in a dark, dark room!

Schwartz’s classic tales are newly reillustrated in this I Can Read full of spooky stories, perfect for beginning readers who love a bit of a scare! The includes a foreword with helpful tricks to tell a scary story. Victor Rivas’ art will grab a new generation of beginning readers. The original edition has won many state awards.

Inspired by traditional folktales, the stories include: “The Teeth”; “In the Graveyard”; “The Green Ribbon”; “In A Dark, Dark Room”; “The Night it Rained”; “The Pirate”; “The Ghost of John”.

Alvin Schwartz is known for a body of work of more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explores 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 Other Scary Stories and Ghosts!—are just one part of his matchless folklore collection.