The Day the Ants Got Really Mad

Scaredy Cats #1

by George E. Stanley, Salvatore Murdocca (Illustrator)

Excited about his new house and especially his new room, which he won't have to share with his little brother, Michael is frustrated when he learns that the house was built on the biggest anthill in the world, and the ants are out to seek revenge. Original.

Genres: Childrens

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

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

[Shayna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can’t believe I found this book! This was the very first chapter book I EVER read when I was a kid and I read it over and over again. I really loved it for some reason!

[Ruth · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this book because my 8 year old son read it and did a book report on it. He enjoyed it since it is from an 8 year old point of view. It seemed very random. I like books that have a message but I'm not sure what this book's message was...maybe "overcoming fears."

It's about ants and why you shouldn't make ants mad. I don't like ants because of a McGuiver episode so this book kinda made me feel creepy too. Ants crawing all over you while you sleep, covering the floors & walls, moving furniture. Not my type of book.

It does stretch the imagination to "what if..."

My 8 year old boy's rating: 4 stars