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| Spiders In The Hairdo | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 583618
Category: Book
Author: David Holt
Publisher: August House
Studio: August House
Manufacturer: August House
Label: August House
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 111
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.2 x 0.3
ISBN: 0874835259
Dewey Decimal Number: 398.20973091732
EAN: 9780874835250
ASIN: 0874835259
Publication Date: November 25, 1999
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Product Description
Hey, did you hear the one about the lady who had her beehive hairdo sprayed so hard that spiders started to nest in it? Of course you did, it happened to your next-door neighbor's cousin. Or was it your cousin's next-door neighbor?
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
Different reading January 3, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a book for older kids who want to have some different reading, besides chapter books. My daughter likes to read this book before bed. It has some off-the-wall stories which appeal to her sense of humor. It has some "adult type" topics [like the woman hiding in her closet naked] which may not be suitable for all children.
 Classic Urban Legend Tales August 15, 2004
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Spiders in the Hairdo is a collection of well known and in most cases frequently told myths, camp fire stories and I heard from a friend of a friend or a friend rumours. The majority you will have heard before but this is a good compact sized collection of some of the best tales. You've got the knife wheeling maniac in the back seat (as told by Auto on the Simpsons) who in this book is a rope strangler. The unwashed hair full of poisonous spiders, the hook on the lovers' car door, scuba diver in the tree after a forest fire and all the world's favourites.
They are quite good versions in this book and this collection is just as good as as lot of other books out there such as The Big Book of Urban Myths or the Darwin Awards Trilogy.
Spiders in the Hairdo is not however in the same high quality league for this genre as Hippo Eats Dwarf by Alex Boese, Great Mythconceptions by Karl Kruszelnicki,The Truth Behind Old Wives Tales by Thomas Craughwell
Easy to Read Source for Urban Legends June 2, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
All those fun stories that you grew up with as a kid are here in this book. The next time you complain about all these new legends on the Internet, remember we all told the one about the bloody hook attached to the car door. And you know that story about the roach eggs in the taco meat made your skin crawl, no pun intended. This book is too much fun and a good source for nostalgic reflection or for retelling to all those people who you just want to scare a little! ...
Told With a Twist of Lemon! February 17, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book does not explore anything new in terms of presenting new Urban Legends. But, it does dramatize well known legends giving them a new flare. Very good book.
 Hilarious! July 20, 2000
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I laughed and laughed and laughed some more. My teenagers love this book, too (I think that's a first--Mom and the kids liking the same book!). Yeah, I've heard some of the stories before, but that doesn't make them any less funny. And the illustrations are a hoot, too. Good fun all around!
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