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Frightfully Friendly Ghosties: Ghostly Holler-Day
It's winter and what could be better than a ghostly holler-day by the sea? But how are Tabitha Tumbly, Charlie Vapour, Humphrey Bump and the other ghosties going to decide between Frighten-on-Sea and Scare-borough?
A postcard from their friend Headless Leslie decides for them: Headless is in Frighten and cannot remember how to get home. He wrote the address on the postcard, then he forgot what the address was.
So the friends descend on Frighten and set off on an exciting ghosty caper, involving a haunted Frighten pier, a mysterious phantom magician, a fun fair, and an extremely infuriating Headless Leslie.
A postcard from their friend Headless Leslie decides for them: Headless is in Frighten and cannot remember how to get home. He wrote the address on the postcard, then he forgot what the address was.
So the friends descend on Frighten and set off on an exciting ghosty caper, involving a haunted Frighten pier, a mysterious phantom magician, a fun fair, and an extremely infuriating Headless Leslie.
128 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2011
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May 13, 2015
A Wonderful, Cheerful Find
The Frightfully Friendly Ghosties series is a total hoot. Take some cheerful pre-reader board books that have a lot of colorful energy. Then rewrite them as early chapter books, but keep that energy. Then add a more advanced but still manageable writing style and vocabulary, some silly business, some more sophisticated sly humor, a few punny names, and some broad good-hearted hi-jinks. Add a ghost narrator, Charlie Vapour, whose mellow good humor is contagious, and you have the ingredients for a top-notch and truly engaging reading adventure. This is volume two in the series, but you really can't go wrong with any of the Ghostie books.
These are just some of the most agreeably inviting kids' books I've read in a while. Sometimes in trying to be super-frantic and mega-silly an author just puts on a performance and forgets that his kid readers want to be allowed in to the story. Not so here; this is a tremendously inviting and welcoming tale with engaging and memorable characters. Each ghostie character has a distinct personality, and the author treats them with fondness. They all also like each other, so the books are loaded with cheerful cooperation and an upbeat can-do spirit, no matter what fix the ghosties find themselves in. This book features a seaside holiday, an annoying disembodied head and a tricky magician. But the plot really doesn't matter that much because it's the character interactions that drive the fun.
This would be a jolly read-to; I can imagine hamming it up a bit as I read this out loud. It would also work as an independent read, and I can see a youngster being pleased while reading it and feeling accomplished after having finished it.
So, a nice find that adds some personality and spirit to the early reader category. And I'm not fibbing. (I bought this book with my own cash money because I liked the first volume so much. I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)
The Frightfully Friendly Ghosties series is a total hoot. Take some cheerful pre-reader board books that have a lot of colorful energy. Then rewrite them as early chapter books, but keep that energy. Then add a more advanced but still manageable writing style and vocabulary, some silly business, some more sophisticated sly humor, a few punny names, and some broad good-hearted hi-jinks. Add a ghost narrator, Charlie Vapour, whose mellow good humor is contagious, and you have the ingredients for a top-notch and truly engaging reading adventure. This is volume two in the series, but you really can't go wrong with any of the Ghostie books.
These are just some of the most agreeably inviting kids' books I've read in a while. Sometimes in trying to be super-frantic and mega-silly an author just puts on a performance and forgets that his kid readers want to be allowed in to the story. Not so here; this is a tremendously inviting and welcoming tale with engaging and memorable characters. Each ghostie character has a distinct personality, and the author treats them with fondness. They all also like each other, so the books are loaded with cheerful cooperation and an upbeat can-do spirit, no matter what fix the ghosties find themselves in. This book features a seaside holiday, an annoying disembodied head and a tricky magician. But the plot really doesn't matter that much because it's the character interactions that drive the fun.
This would be a jolly read-to; I can imagine hamming it up a bit as I read this out loud. It would also work as an independent read, and I can see a youngster being pleased while reading it and feeling accomplished after having finished it.
So, a nice find that adds some personality and spirit to the early reader category. And I'm not fibbing. (I bought this book with my own cash money because I liked the first volume so much. I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)
January 5, 2014
Now and then I like to review children’s books and I grabbed this one up a while back because it sounded funny. Darren King has a series called Frightfully Friendly Ghosties and they are not the pretties bunch of ghost you have ever seen but they are interesting. I haven’t read any of the other books in this series but I bet they are just as fun as Ghostly Holler-day.
The ghostly gang has decided they want to take a holler day but can’t make up their minds where they want to go. There are two choices and some one to go to one place and some to the other place. Then they notice that Wither is hiding something from them and they go and find out what it is. They see that Headless Leslie has sent them a postcard from Frighten and he says that he is lost and cant find his way home.
So this decides for the gang where they are going to go as they must go and find their friend. While they are there they hear about a scary ghost that has people scared and they think it’s headless Leslie, but maybe it’s not. In their search for Leslie they run into something strange and frightening.
Will they ever get to enjoy their holler-day?
Frightfully Friendly Ghosties is full of cute fun filled ghosties and not the scary kind. I think that young readers will have a lot of fun reading about their Ghostly Holler-day adventure. The illustrations are different and give these ghost some character. Over all I thought it was a cute chapter book that young readers would like.
The ghostly gang has decided they want to take a holler day but can’t make up their minds where they want to go. There are two choices and some one to go to one place and some to the other place. Then they notice that Wither is hiding something from them and they go and find out what it is. They see that Headless Leslie has sent them a postcard from Frighten and he says that he is lost and cant find his way home.
So this decides for the gang where they are going to go as they must go and find their friend. While they are there they hear about a scary ghost that has people scared and they think it’s headless Leslie, but maybe it’s not. In their search for Leslie they run into something strange and frightening.
Will they ever get to enjoy their holler-day?
Frightfully Friendly Ghosties is full of cute fun filled ghosties and not the scary kind. I think that young readers will have a lot of fun reading about their Ghostly Holler-day adventure. The illustrations are different and give these ghost some character. Over all I thought it was a cute chapter book that young readers would like.
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September 3, 2012hmm.... hmm.... Interesting!!
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