The Case of the Horrible Swamp Monster
Just finished reading "The Case of the Horrible Swamp Monster" by Drew Steven, published by Dodd, Mead, & Company back in 1984.
I stumbled across "The Case of the Horrible Swamp Monster" at the unnamed bookstore at the Pecan Park Flea Market a while back ago and it looked like it would be an enjoyable read.
I am not a snob who believe in only reading "age" appropriate books.
"The Case of the Horrible Swamp Monster" is the first book in Stevenson's Monster Hunters series - which sadly only includes two other books in the series.
Raymond Almond knows that his class project isn't going to go well when he finds out that bossy Verna Wilkes is in his group. Verna convinces the group that their project should be a movie because her father recently gave her a movie camera. What makes it bad is that she insists that it should be a monster movie and that Raymond should play the part of the monster. Raymond is embarrassed about having to stumble around the spooky Lost Swamp in the ridiculous monster costume, but he puts aside his embarrassment when what looks like a real swamp monster appears in the background of the footage. Fortunately, Raymond's best friend is J. Huntley English, an intelligent boy and amateur cryptozoologist (or Monster Hunter, as he likes to put it). When Raymond and Verna tell Huntley what they've seen, he's quick to join in the investigation, eager to discover proof of a real monster. The course of their investigation takes a strange turn when friendly Mr. Walton, who works as a janitor at the same bank where Huntley and Verna's mothers work, is arrested for stealing money. The kids refuse to believe that he's guilty and soon learn that there is a connection between the thefts and the mysterious monster and possibly the strange fisherman who has also been lurking around the swamp.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Horrible-...
I stumbled across "The Case of the Horrible Swamp Monster" at the unnamed bookstore at the Pecan Park Flea Market a while back ago and it looked like it would be an enjoyable read.
I am not a snob who believe in only reading "age" appropriate books.
"The Case of the Horrible Swamp Monster" is the first book in Stevenson's Monster Hunters series - which sadly only includes two other books in the series.
Raymond Almond knows that his class project isn't going to go well when he finds out that bossy Verna Wilkes is in his group. Verna convinces the group that their project should be a movie because her father recently gave her a movie camera. What makes it bad is that she insists that it should be a monster movie and that Raymond should play the part of the monster. Raymond is embarrassed about having to stumble around the spooky Lost Swamp in the ridiculous monster costume, but he puts aside his embarrassment when what looks like a real swamp monster appears in the background of the footage. Fortunately, Raymond's best friend is J. Huntley English, an intelligent boy and amateur cryptozoologist (or Monster Hunter, as he likes to put it). When Raymond and Verna tell Huntley what they've seen, he's quick to join in the investigation, eager to discover proof of a real monster. The course of their investigation takes a strange turn when friendly Mr. Walton, who works as a janitor at the same bank where Huntley and Verna's mothers work, is arrested for stealing money. The kids refuse to believe that he's guilty and soon learn that there is a connection between the thefts and the mysterious monster and possibly the strange fisherman who has also been lurking around the swamp.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Horrible-...
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