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I'm a Poet/The Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club

Season 1 Episode 28 | 26m 25s

When Fern challenges Arthur and his friends to enter a poetry content, each one writes a poem to be judged by the famous poet Jack Prelutsky. / Everyone is obsessed with the spooky Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club books. When a group called PAWS--"Parents Against Weird Stories"--tries to have the books banned, fans of the books spring into action!

Aired: 05/18/97
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