Alvin Schwartz is known for a body of work of more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explores everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. His collections of scary stories--Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Scary Stories 3, and two I Can Read books, In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories and Ghosts!--are just one part of his matchless folklore collection.

Karen Ann Weinhaus earned a B.F.A. degree from Boston Museum School and Tufts University and worked as a cildren's book designer in New York City for several years. In addition to having illustratd Alvin Schwartz's There is a Carrot in My Ear and Other Noodle Tales, she is the artist for many popular books including Poem Stew, edited by William Cole, and Samson Svenson's Baby by Sheila Moore.

Ms. Weinhaus lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.