Talk:Alvin Schwartz (children's author)

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ÒCan you have each story page by alvin schwartz book: scary stories treasury? Each page would be on this website that looks him up.

Article should have an explanation of what "challenged book" means.

Done. Matt Deres 03:31, 29 March 2006 (UTC) mabye this junk should be over here too so people don't have to use up time looking around for it

The level of gruesome detail in the illustrations and overall sinister and violent content of the stories is sometimes seen to be excessive for the members of the series' target audience. The sinister nature of the illustrations and the frightening subject matter in the series caused it to be repeatedly challenged for inclusion in libraries throughout the 1990s. It eventually topped the list of challenged books of the 1990s by the American Library Association [1]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:03, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:ScaryStories.jpg
Image:ScaryStories.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:04, 24 January 2008 (UTC)