Very Short Scary Tales to Read Together [Paperback]

Do you like your mind all jumpy?
Do you like your skin all bumpy?
If you do, then take a look
At the stories in this book!

Mary Ann Hoberman and Michael Emberley's award-winning picture book featuring scary stories is now available in an affordable paperback edition - just in time for Halloween! With clear, color-coded type and clever illustrations, this fourthYou Read to Me, I'll Read to Youbook uses traditional teaching techniques to invite young children to read along with the text.

With special appeal to School & Library Markets, this new edition is the second paperback in the series, the first of which was aNew York Timesbestseller.Mary Ann Hoberman's volunteer work teaching literacy inspired her to create theYou Read to Me, I'll Read to Youseries of books to encourage reading. Winner of the National Book Award, she is the author of more than thirty-five books for children, includingOne of EachandMiss Mary Mack. In October 2008, Mary Ann was selected as the nation's next Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation at the fifth annual Pegasus Awards inChicago.Ms. Hoberman enjoys reading with her grandchildren: I read to them - they read to me! Her Web site iswww.maryannhoberman.com.

Michael Emberley is the creator of the highly acclaimed picture booksRubyand its sequel,Ruby and the Sniffs;Welcome Back Sun;Dinosaurs, and most recently,Mail Harry to the Moon. Having grown up in a family of writers and artists, he is an avid reader and comic book fan. A native of New England, Mr. Emberley now lives in San Diego, California. His Web site iswww.michaelemberley.com.