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Whoppers: Tall Tales and Other Lies

One hundred and forty-five outlandish, hyperbolic, and stranger-than-fiction lies are collected from the folks and fabricators of the American frontier and backwoods

By Alvin Schwartz

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Hardcover:

9780397315758 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, April 1, 1975, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of tall tales involving animals, the weather, narrow escapes, and many other topics.

Prebinding:

9780833548818 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.60 | About this edition: A collection of tall tales involving animals, the weather, narrow escapes, and many other topics.

And the Green Grass Grew All Around: Folk Poetry from Everyone

Gathers rhymes, poems and songs, some over three centuries old, that are a testament to the originality of the American language (view table of contents)

By Alvin Schwartz and Sue Truesdell (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780060227579 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, March 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of rhymes, poems and songs, some over three centuries old, that are a testament to the originality of the American language

Paperback:

9780064462143 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, April 1, 1999, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Gathers rhymes, poems and songs, some over three centuries old, that are a testament to the originality of the American language

Library:

9780060227586 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1992, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: A collection of rhymes, poems and songs, some over three centuries old, that are a testament to the originality of the American language

Reinforced:

9780606167048 | Demco Media, April 1, 1999, cover price $19.06 | About this edition: A collection of rhymes, poems and songs, some over three centuries old, that are a testament to the originality of the American language

Prebinding:

9780613182317 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $19.90 | About this edition: Gathers rhymes, poems and songs, some over three centuries old, that are a testament to the originality of the American language

Scary Stories Fright Pack/Includes Book and Paints

Product Description: Bring the fiendishly gruesome characters of Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark to life this Halloween with the Scary Stories Fright Pack. This spine-tingling parcel is packed with a copy of the book, three vats of non-toxic face paint, and one tube of fake blood.

By Stephen Gammell (illustrator) and Alvin Schwartz

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Paperback:

9780694011452 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 1, 1997, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Bring the fiendishly gruesome characters of Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark to life this Halloween with the Scary Stories Fright Pack.

An Unlikely Prophet: Revelations on the Path Without Form : A Novel

Product Description: In 1947, Alvin Schwartz wrote what the New York Times called perhaps the first existential novel in America. And as a friend to Saul Bellow, Jackson Pollock and some of the best minds in psychology and physics, he was part of a rich intellectual world...read more

By Alvin Schwartz

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Hardcover:

9780965952101 | Divina, June 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In 1947, Alvin Schwartz wrote what the New York Times called perhaps the first existential novel in America.

An Unlikely Prophet: Revelations on the Path Without Form

By Alvin Schwartz

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9780965952125 | Divina, June 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In 1947, Alvin Schwartz wrote what the New York Times called perhaps the first existential novel in America.

Scary Stories Omnibus

Product Description: Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death -- they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories.

By Stephen Gammell (illustrator) and Alvin Schwartz

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Hardcover:

9780060267865 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, June 1, 1995, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death -- they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories.

Tomfoolery, Trickery and Foolery With Words

Includes riddles and tricks taken from American folktales, songs, and games

By Alvin Schwartz

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Hardcover:

9780397314669, titled "Tomfoolery: Trickery and Foolery With Words" | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, April 1, 1973, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Entertain friends with these riddles, wisecracks, and practical jokes.

Paperback:

9780064461542, titled "Tomfoolery: Trickery and Foolery With Words" | Harpercollins Childrens Books, June 1, 1994, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Includes riddles and tricks taken from American folktales, songs, and games

9780553150018 | Bantam Books, September 1, 1976, cover price $1.75 | About this edition: Book by Schwartz, Alvin

Scary Stories Fright Box

A paperback edition of the popular Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is accompanied by a cassette version of the book, some fake blood, and glow-in-the-dark fangs.

By Stephen Gammell (illustrator) and Alvin Schwartz

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Hardcover:

9780694005734 | Har/cas edition (Harpercollins Childrens, October 1, 1993), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A paperback edition of the popular Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is accompanied by a cassette version of the book, some fake blood, and glow-in-the-dark fangs.

Witcracks: Jokes and Jests from American Folklore

Traces the history and gives examples of puns, shaggy-dog stories, and other jokes from American humor of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

By Alvin Schwartz

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Paperback:

9780064461467 | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, May 1, 1993), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Outlandish exaggerations, puns, riddles, and tales provide an introduction to American folk humor

9780553150179 | Bantam Books, August 1, 1977, cover price $1.75

Library:

9780397314751 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1973, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Outlandish exaggerations, puns, riddles, and tales provide a delightful introduction to American folk humor

Gold and Silver, Silver and Gold: Tales of Hidden Treasure

Tells the stories of a buried treasure, a treasure map, a lake full of gold nuggets, a lost gold mine, prospectors, and pirate treasure

By Alvin Schwartz

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Hardcover:

9780374326906 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1988, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Presents legends, true stories, and tall tales about the hunting, finding, and losing of treasure, including pirate treasure and treasure not yet uncovered.

Paperback:

9780374425838, titled "Gold & Silver, Silver & Gold: Tales of Hidden Treasure" | Reprint edition (Sunburst, April 1, 1993), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Presents legends, true stories, and tall tales about the hunting, finding, and losing of treasure, including pirate treasure and treasure not yet uncovered.

Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat: Superstitions and Other Beliefs

Superstitions about such topics as love and marriage, money, ailments, travel, the weather, and death.

By Glen Rounds (illustrator) and Alvin Schwartz

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Paperback:

9780064461382 | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, April 1, 1993), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Describes numerous omens, magic cures, and charms and shares common superstitions concerning both good and bad luck

Library:

9780397324361 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, July 1, 1990, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: Describes numerous omens, magic cures, and charms and shares common superstitions concerning both good and bad luck

Kickle Snifters and Other Fearsome Critters

Introduces young readers to creatures often seen by woodsmen and cowboys, such as the goofus bird that sleeps upside down and the shy squidgicum-squee that swallows itself when people approach

By Alvin Schwartz

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Paperback:

9780064461290 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1992), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Brief text and illustrations introduce such strange creatures from American folklore as the snawfus, billdad, lufferlang, and tripodero.

Library:

9780397316458 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, September 1, 1976, cover price $10.89 | About this edition: Brief text and illustrations introduce such strange creatures from American folklore as the snawfus, billdad, lufferlang, and tripodero.

9780397321612 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1911, cover price $12.89

Stories to Tell a Cat

A collection of cat stories drawn from folklore, some realistic and some fanciful

By Catherine Huerta (illustrator) and Alvin Schwartz

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Hardcover:

9780060208509 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of cat stories drawn from folklore, some realistic and some fanciful

Library:

9780060208516 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1992, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: A collection of cat stories drawn from folklore, some realistic and some fanciful

Scary Stories/Boxed Set

Schwartz's three best-selling collections of scary folklore--Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and Scary Stories 3--are made available in a three-volume boxed set.

By Stephen Gammell (illustrator) and Alvin Schwartz

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Paperback:

9780064404655 | Box edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 1, 1992), cover price $17.97 | About this edition: Schwartz's three best-selling collections of scary folklore--Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and Scary Stories 3--are made available in a three-volume boxed set.

Busy Buzzing Bumblebees and Other Tongue Twisters

A collection of forty-six tongue twisters

By Alvin Schwartz

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Hardcover:

9780060252687 | Revised edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, May 1, 1992), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of forty-six tongue twisters

Paperback:

9780064440363 | Revised edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, May 1, 1992), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A collection of forty-six tongue twisters

Library:

9780060252694, titled "Busy Buzzing Bumblebees: And Other Tongue Twisters" | Harpercollins, May 1, 1992, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: A collection of forty-six tongue twisters

Reinforced:

9780606010597 | Demco Media, May 1, 1992, cover price $12.37 | About this edition: A collection of forty-six tongue twisters

Prebinding:

9780613133296 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.35 | About this edition: A collection of forty-six tongue twisters

A Twister of Twists, a Tangler of Tongues

A collection of tongue twisters, both traditional and new, in prose and verse

By Glen Rounds and Alvin Schwartz

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Library:

9780397325016 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, December 1, 1991), cover price $13.89 | About this edition: A collection of tongue twisters, both traditional and new, in prose and verse

Flapdoodle, Pure Nonsense from American Folklore

A collection of spoonerisms, word plays, visual jokes and riddles, punctuation rhymes, nursery rhyme parodies, and other nonsense speech, verses, and stories

By Alvin Schwartz

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Hardcover:

9780397319190 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, October 1, 1980, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of spoonerisms, word plays, visual jokes and riddles, punctuation rhymes, nursery rhyme parodies, and other nonsense speech, verses, and stories

Library:

9780397319206, titled "Flapdoodle: Pure Nonsense from American Folklore" | Harpercollins, December 1, 1990, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: A collection of spoonerisms, word plays, visual jokes and riddles, punctuation rhymes, nursery rhyme parodies, and other nonsense speech, verses, and stories

Tomfoolery

Includes riddles and tricks taken from American folktales, songs, and games

By Alvin Schwartz

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Library:

9780397324378 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, April 1, 1990), cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Includes riddles and tricks taken from American folktales, songs, and games

Telling Fortunes

A collection of traditional beliefs, popular sayings, and superstitions that can be used as games to determine the future

By Alvin Schwartz

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Paperback:

9780064460941 | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, April 1, 1990), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A collection of traditional beliefs, popular sayings, and superstitions that can be used as games to determine the future

There Is a Carrot in My Ear and Other Stories

By Alvin Schwartz

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780898459746 | Caedmon Audio Cassette, March 1, 1990, cover price $9.95

Whoppers: Tall Tales and Other Lies Collected from American Folklore

One hundred and forty-five outlandish, hyperbolic, and stranger-than-fiction lies are collected from the folks and fabricators of the American frontier and backwoods

By Glen Rounds (illustrator) and Alvin Schwartz

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Paperback:

9780064460910 | Trophy Pr, January 1, 1990, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A collection of tall tales involving animals, the weather, narrow escapes, and many other topics.

Reinforced:

9780606044233 | Demco Media, January 1, 1990, cover price $15.71 | About this edition: A collection of tall tales involving animals, the weather, narrow escapes, and many other topics.

Tales of Trickery from the Land of Spoof

Tells the stories behind a variety of tricks, practical jokes, college pranks, and hoaxes

By David Christiana and Alvin Schwartz

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Hardcover:

9780374373788 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1986, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A collection of humorous tales from a variety of sources.

Paperback:

9780374474263 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1988), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A collection of humorous tales from a variety of sources.

All of Our Noses Are Here and Other Noodle Tales

The noodle-headed Brown family loses their donkey to clever thieves, have trouble making sure everyone has returned from a rowboat ride, and think their reflections in a mirror are another family

By Alvin Schwartz

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Paperback:

9780064441087 | Trophy Pr, August 1, 1987, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: The noodle-headed Brown family loses their donkey to clever thieves, have trouble making sure everyone has returned from a rowboat ride, and think their reflections in a mirror are another family

Library:

9780060252885 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1985, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: A collection of five stories about a family of silly people, based on noodle folklore from America, India, Japan, Korea, and the Arabian Nights.

Telling Fortunes: Love Magic, Dream Signs & Other Ways to Learn the Future

A collection of traditional beliefs, popular sayings, and superstitions that can be used as games to determine the future

By Alvin Schwartz

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Hardcover:

9780397321322 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, July 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of traditional beliefs, popular sayings, and superstitions that can be used as games to determine the future

Library:

9780397321339, titled "Telling Fortunes: Love Magic, Dream Signs, and Other Ways to Learn the Future" | Harpercollins, July 1, 1987, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: A collection of traditional beliefs, popular sayings, and superstitions that can be used as games to determine the future

Love Magic: Dream Signs and Other Ways to Learn the Future

By Alvin Schwartz

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Hardcover:

9780318610801 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, April 1, 1987, cover price $7.50

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