“This is . I’m Ayla and I’m Calla. Back in May–we talked to two sisters with a love for scary storytelling. I asked the girls, “Why do you love scary stories?” Ayla replied, “Cause it’s in our blood.” ...

Looking for good bedtime stories for kids? I’m a huge advocate of reading bedtime stories to kids. And in this list of children’s picture books, I’m sharing meta stories — stories about bedtime!

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Ah, family camping: Sleeping under the stars, s’mores by the fire… time seems to pass a little slower in the woods, doesn’t it? And for kids, that magic just seems to be magnified. One of the things ...

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Children can have a hard time pressing the ‘pause’ button on their active brains at bedtime. They wonder what the rest of the household is doing, they worry about monsters and other scary creatures ...

From 1990 to 1999 “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” slithered up to the top of the list as among the most notorious banned books in the country. The three collections of stories by Alvin Schwartz ...

Seeing the cover of Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981) has a powerfully Proustian effect on me: my stomach drops a little bit and a shiver of twinned fear and delight runs down ...