Stores

By Alvin Schwartz

An inside look at the day-to-day operations of forty typical stores.

In a Dark, Dark Room

By Alvin Schwartz

Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries.

All of our noses are here, and other noodle tales

By Alvin Schwartz

A collection of five stories about a family of silly people, based on noodle folklore from America, India, Japan, Korea, and the Arabian Nights.

Cross your fingers, spit in your hat

By Alvin Schwartz

Witcracks: jokes and jests from American folklore.

By Alvin Schwartz

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

Cross your fingers, spit in your hat

By Alvin Schwartz

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

Chin music

By Alvin Schwartz

Presents examples of folk speech used during the period 1815 to 1950. Identifies their meaning and the regions in which they were collected.

Chin music

By Alvin Schwartz

Presents examples of folk speech used during the period 1815 to 1950. Identifies their meaning and the regions in which they were collected.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

By Alvin Schwartz

Unriddling

By Alvin Schwartz

A collection of riddles of various traditional types including queer-word, hidden-answer, neck, leg, rebus, and tricky-question riddles.