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Fright Club

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for Fright Club by Ethan Long

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  • Publisher's Weekly:
  • Ages 4 - 8
  • TeachingBooks:*
  • Grades PK-2
  • Word Count:
  • 429
  • Lexile Level:
  • 480L
  • ATOS Reading Level:
  • 2.4
  • Genre:
  • Holiday
  • Humor
  • Picture Book
  • Year Published:
  • 2015

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From Horn Book

September 1, 2015
The first rule of Fright Club: don't talk about Fright Club. The next rule? Only the truly scary can be members. Discrimination! cries a bunny, who wastes no time seeking representation, then organizing a demonstration. HISS, MOAN, BOO! WE CAN SCARE TOO! chant a butterfly, ladybug, turtle, and squirrel. And scare they do, disrupting the Fright Club meeting and proving their fearsome bona fides just in time for Operation Kiddie Scare. It's a funny Halloween concept that delivers, through Long's spry textGhost: What are we going to do?!? Vampire Vladimir: NOTHING! If you ignore cute little critters, they eventually go away! and cartoony digitally colored (but very sparely, it's mostly all shadowy grays) graphite-pencil illustrations. elissa gershowitz

(Copyright 2015 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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From Publisher's Weekly

Starred review from July 27, 2015
After a witch, vampire, ghost, and other creatures convene for a tree house meeting of Fright Club, it soon becomes clear that the club’s first rule is that cute creatures need not apply: “Fright Club is for monsters only!” says vampire Vladimir as he shoos away a fluffy white rabbit. However, the club’s monsters aren’t very good at “ghoulish faces” and “scary moves,” and the bunny—along with a squirrel, turtle, and other traditionally unscary creatures—could actually show them a thing or two. Long’s dark, ghostly palette sets an appropriately eerie mood, and he has a lot of fun with the cuddly animals’ reign of terror (a butterfly wields chains, Jacob Marley style, as it chases a ghost). Don’t worry about what goes bump in the night, Long seems to suggest—daylight can be plenty scary, too. Ages 4–8. Agent: Paul Rodeen, Rodeen Literary Management.

Publisher's Weekly

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