Schwartz, Alvin and Stephen Gammell. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Scholastic Inc: New York, 1987.Annotation: This book will appeal to any age, for listening, viewing the drawings or for telling. This collection of folklore retold by Alvin Schwartz has twisted and chilling stories.
Justification for Rejection: Unfortunately I decided to reject this book for mixed reasons. This book is targeted for late elementary and junior high age. I feel this book would be appropriate for early teenagers but not really for adult readers. There was only a handful of stories in this book that gave me chills and the illustrations were eerie. I think the illustrator did an awesome job portraying the stories. The stories were short and I thought they could have had more details and more depth to them. I do feel these stories are important to tell and to past on. I don't feel this book should be on the list of banned books. None of the content of this book I feel is something readers should not be exposed to. This use to be one of my favorite books when I was thirteen, I still think this is a book for that age. It was weird back in May 2009, I saw a lady talk about this particular book on Yalsa and how her children loved it. This book is in a series of scary stories and I think they are apart of our culture and whether or not they are fable they should be told.
Genre: challenged/banned, horror, folklore, fiction.
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