Vampire Kittens Of Count Dracula

Scaredy Cats #8

by George E. Stanley, Salvatore Murdocca (Illustrator)

The pet store sells Jonathan his new kitten by mistake--the entire litter had been supposed to be sold to a mysterious new resident in town, Count Dracula, in this hair-raising vampire story. Original.

80 pages, Board Book

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

George Edward Stanley was born in Memphis, Texas on July 15, 1942. He received a bachelor's degree in 1965 and a master's degree in 1967 from Texas Tech University. He earned his Doctor Litterarum in African Linguistics in 1974 from the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. He lived all over Europe and Africa, studying and teaching foreign languages, working for the U.S. government, and writing books for young people and adults. He started writing fiction while a Fulbright professor in Chad, Central Africa, where about the only diversion he found available was listening to the BBC on his short wave radio. That led to his writing radio plays for a program called World Service Short Story. Three of his plays were eventually produced. After writing and publishing over 200 short stories in American, British, Irish, and South African magazines and linguistics articles in major international journals, he started writing books. He wrote over 100 fiction and non-fiction books for young people including The Katie Lynn Cookie Company series and the Adam Sharp series. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of M. T. Coffin, Franklin W. Dixon, Laura Lee Hope, Carolyn Keene, Adam Mills, and Stuart Symons. He was a professor of African and Middle-Eastern languages and linguistics in the department of foreign languages at Cameron University. He died from a ruptured aneurysm on February 7, 2011 at the age of 68.

Reviews

[Charles David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Back in the day, I read this book to my daughter Joz at least a half dozen times. We absolutely love it. Why? Because it's about a kitten that's a vampire. Awesome, I know. And, it made us roll with laughter, bonus. Those are incredible memories you can only get when reading great books with your kid. Real Heroes Read!

[Vyviane Armstrong · Rating 5 out of 5]

The 90s were such a time for books. This book is crazy, violent, scary, and very easy to read. I'm not even sure who it's intended for. It could be read by beginning readers but the contents are nuts. I would have read this book a million times over and had nightmares every night because of it if I had run into it as a child.

For all of those reasons I give this book five stars.

[Mor · Rating 4 out of 5]

liveposted this w my friends and it was so fun to jump back into my childhood nostalgia lol. also was jonathan 'reeves' a 1992 dig?