Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, By Alvin Schwartz

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

When you were young and would to the library you would look for books that would give you an entertaining story but yet you can learn from. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is one of the many books that the schools and the parents want to ban and protest against. With each story, ranging from 1-3 pages each, the book includes all types of violence that is graphic and detailed, causing kids reading this book to have nightmares and not being able to sleep at night. Scary Stories should not be assigned in elementary classes because its graphic content and its mature themes are likely to have a negative impact on young readers.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was published in 1981 by Alvin Schwartz but didn’t

I know for a fact, if I was in the forth grade and saw a book with these types of illustration I would have a hard time sleeping at night. I believe that these are some of the types of reasons that kids growing up still believe in “The monster under the bed”. In Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz, “”An awful thing happens ever night,” he said “a witch turns me into a hourse and rides me all along the country side”” If I were to be put in charge of reassigning this book to the appropriate grade level I would want it to be in the middle school area where the kids are more mature. Around the eight or ninth grade to be exact, I remember me having a big transition from sixth to seventh grade mature wise. This author also writes stories about a mass murder that broke out of prison, warning the people of the city that he had lost his hand and has a hook in replacement, in this story the main characters at Donald and Sarah who were parked at the edge of the city at the time and Sarah and Donald to please take her home because they are way to close to the prison that had the escapee. Donalds tells her not to worry and soon gives in and take her back home. As she gets out she notices the claw in the passenger side door. I believe if this book was assigned for a higher-grade level it would have never been challenged by the school system in the first place, it would have been

Although death may be personified as an angel, skeleton, or ghost, this age group is beginning to understand death as permanent, universal, and inevitable. They may be very curious about the physical process of death and what happens after a person dies. They may fear their own death because of uncertainty of what happens to them after they die. Fear of the unknown, loss of control, and separation from family and friends can be the school-aged child's main sources of anxiety and fear related to death. I remember sitting in the library in the 4th grade as the librarian read us scary stories, some about ghost or hunted houses. One story that I remember to this day is about the Jamestown haunted bridge actually right next to our campus. The story is that a girl had died in a car crash years ago and would stand under the bridge in a white dress. Cars would stop as she would be crying and she would tell them that she needs to get home. They agree to take her home but as they arrive to the doorstep and the door is answered it is the girls parents that have to explain how she died years ago. To this day I am still scared of these types of story, the fact that I have been under the bridge everyday on my way to school wouldn’t help