Review by Booklist Review
The Mysterious & Unknown series walks a fine line, presenting information that a student could use to write a report without throwing too much cold water on good old-fashioned, shivery stories. They end up leaning more on the side of stories, although they do cite where the information comes from in chapter notes. Urban Legends recounts the creepy friend-of-a-friend things that happened to someone else, grouping them by type of story and showing the similarities between them. Each book includes drawings, etchings, photographs, and other artwork, though the sidebars and boxes sometimes repeat information from the main text rather than extend it.--Dove Lempke, Susan Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Horn Book Review
Stewart discusses the history of urban legends: their origins, transmission, and basis in fact (or not). Several well-known urban legends--e.g., the black-market kidney-removal victim in the bathtub--along with "Celebrity Urban Legends" ("Is Paul McCartney Dead?") are used as examples. Photos, illustrations, pull-quotes, and sidebars break up the dense text. Reading list, websites. Ind. Copyright 2010 of The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.
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