The Addams Family: The Story of the Movie: Movie tie-in

by Calliope Glass

A hilariously spooky novelisation by US author, Calliope Glass, based on the new animated family film, The Addams Family.
The Addams Family animated movie features an all-star cast including Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Bette Midler, Allison Janney and Elsie Fisher.

Together Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester and Grandmama are the Addamses – a wonderfully ghoulish family who delight in the gothic and macabre, and are completely unaware of how bizarre they appear to their neighbours. In this brilliant story of the movie, the Addams clan are gathering their nearest and weirdest for a major family get-together while also facing off against a crafty reality-TV host.

144 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 5, 2019

About the author

Calliope Glass is an editor and the writer of several popular titles for licenses like Star Wars, Marvel, and the Disney Princesses. She lives in New York City with her family.

Reviews

[curtis :) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75* it was fun but the ending was too rushed and I’m not really sure what this book actually adds to the franchise lol

[Susy Tomasiello · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Joyce Wang · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. I love the whole idea of the Addams family. But the writing of this book feels to be aimed for really young readers.

[Megan Wintrip · Rating 5 out of 5]

They're creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky.

The story of Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday, Pugsley, Lurch, Grandmama and Uncle Fester. A gothic family who love the dead, dark and the utterly disturbing world of gloom.

After being chased from the "normal" world the Addamses find a lovely home in a dark, disturbing worn down asylum which has a host of a poltergeist who tell them constantly to "GET OUT" .. well that's until he's had his morning coffee.

With a family tradition of a Sabre Mazurka coming up for young Pugsley and the Addamses extended family coming to hold and see the ceremony, it doesn't quite sit well with interior designer Margaux Needler. She had made over a whole town and needs to sell the houses quickly but with the Addams mansion sitting in view she takes matters into her own hands. She turns the town against the Addams family in order to try and run them out of town.

Family sticks together and with some suprise friendships and observations things don't go to plan for Margaux when the town realise she has planted cameras in their homes to make sure that they are suitable home owners.

[Haley Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars

I have always loved The Addams Family. Kooky, quirky, weird.. however you want to describe them they are brilliant. This book is a brilliant YA read about celebrating what makes you different and what makes you unique, be proud of you are regardless of what others think because in reality.. we all have a little bit of Addams inside us!

[Kasthuri BV · Rating 4 out of 5]

What is more blood curdling than reading a book, one like this. Let's say it puts things in perspective. If the world hated people who are different, then they should obviously hate the same way. Only seems fair!

[donna craig · Rating 5 out of 5]

enjoyed this little book my daughter gave me fun and so easy to read would be good for teenagers to read

[Eli · Rating 5 out of 5]

God i love the addams family

[Cian · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had a good time reading the book. It was fun

[Scott Oliver · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, quick read faithful to the film

[Wilri · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was not a book I would have bought myself but I bought it for my son. When he didn’t like the first few pages I continued to read it myself as I don’t like wasted potential books to read. Being familiar with The Addams family I was not sure what to expect of this new version. I was not disappointed but it was also not exceptionally good. I did have a few laughs mostly because of the poltergeist in the house. Overall it was a quick and easy read and I think older children or teens would probably enjoy it more.

[Sonja Gieren · Rating 5 out of 5]

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💀🦇🌚The Addams Family🌚🦇💀
-Das Buch zum Film-

Autorin: Calliope Glass
Übersetzer: Christine Schlitt
Verlag: Dragonfly
Preis: 12€, Gebundenes Buch
Seiten: 176 Seiten
ISBN: 9783748800330
Alter: ab 8 Jahren
Erscheinungsdatum: 14. Oktober 2019

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Sie sind skurril. Sie sind gruselig. Und sie sind zurück!
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Im Oktober 2019 erobert die Addams Family die großen Leinwände! Das Buch zum Animationsfilm erzählt die ganze schaurig-schöne Geschichte der Familie.
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Die Addams Family ist alles andere als eine klassische Familie. Doch verschroben und liebenswürdig wie sie sind, verstehen Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Onkel Fester und Großmutter nicht, warum die Nachbarn sie ein kleines bisschen merkwürdig finden.
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Die Addams Family bereitet ein großes Fest vor. Zur Feier des Tages werden zahlreiche Mitglieder der buckligen Verwandtschaft erwartet. Als wäre das nicht schon Aufregung genug, steht kurz vor dem Fest plötzlich auch noch eine aufdringliche Reality-TV-Moderatorin vor der Tür und will die Familienvilla aufhübschen. Und das Leben der Familie gerät ordentlich durcheinander.
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Mit vielen farbigen Bildern aus dem Film!
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Ab 24. Oktober 2019 NUR im Kino:
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Hallo ihr Süßen💕
Wer kennt sie nicht "Die Addams Family", ich erinnere mich noch sehr sehr gut an die alten Filme und habe das eiskalte Händchen einfach nur geliebt. Es war so herrlich mal einfach eine vollkommen durchgeknallte und ganz besondere Familie zu erleben, Und die Addams sind wirklich mehr als besonders!, skurril, sarkastisch und einfach vollkommen durchgeknallt. Umso mehr habe ich mich natürlich gefreut, das es einen weiteren Kino Film geben wird, dieses mal einen animierten aber ganz bestimmt nicht weniger lustigen Film. Zumindest wenn man diesem Buch hier geht, kann der Film nur grandios sein. Ich habe das Buch und auch die beiden Erstlese Bücher, absolut genossen. Es war so herrlich und erfrischend und ich kam aus dem Lachen gar nicht mehr heraus. Ich kann immer noch nicht sagen, wen ich am liebsten mag, aber das eiskalte Händchen wird es wohl immer bleiben. Dieses Buch ist, daß Buch zum Kino Film und beinhaltet einen Mittel-Teil mit Film Bildern, aber ansonsten gibt es darin keine Illustrationen. Es hat eine angenehme Große Schriftart und ist perfekt zum Vorlesen oder Selbstlesen geeignet. Da es aber wirklich sehr skurril ist, finde ich die Alters Angabe von 8 Jahren angemessen. Klar es ist nur eine fiktive Geschichte, jedoch können jüngere Kinder dies noch nicht ganz auseinander halten. Ich hatte wirklich sehr viel Spaß beim Lesen und kann es definitiv weiter empfehlen, genauso wie die anderen zwei Erstlese Bücher, die auch perfekt für jüngere Kinder geeignet sind. Ganz lieben Gruß Sonja/Shaaniel

[Elle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Godibile ma un po' troppo da bambini

Un libro concepito per i più piccoli, ma che in realtà è godibilissimo per tutti ed è essenziale per tutti i fan della Famiglia più bizzarra del mondo!
Da poco ho letto il bellissimo La Famiglia Addams. Una storia diabolica di Miserocchi, che racconta la genesi di tutti i personaggi per come Charles Addams li aveva concepiti. Quindi è stato stimolante e interessante leggere questo libricino della Glass che li riprende e li racconta, aggiungendo tutti i dettagli che Addams ha aggiunto durante la lavorazione della storica serie tv del 1963.
Il merito della Glass è stato anche quello di aggiungere alcuni dettagli - assai godibili - per alcuni Personaggi, tra cui, per esempio, Lurch, facendo di lui un ex "ospite" di un manicomio criminale - che tra l'altro è proprio la Dimora Addams - in cui la coppia di novelli sposi Addams si imbatte durante una notte buia e tempestosa.

Il libro è la trasposizione letteraria del film d'animazione del 2019, "La Famiglia Addams/a>" ed è fedelissimo al cartone.

Morticia e Gomez stanno convolando a giuste nozze ma la popolazione insorge, indispettita dalla loro bizzarrìa. La folla armata di forconi li rincorre e li costringe alla fuga.
Approdano in New Jersey e si imbattono in un ex manicomio criminale in rovina, scenario di un omicidio che ospita lo spirito demoniaco e incattivito di un Poltergeist ben poco amichevole - placabile, comunque, con una buona dose di caffè al mattino.
Tutto procede placidamente, non fosse che alle pendici della loro meravigliosamente lugubre collina attrezzata da palude e aria malsana, una designer molto in voga sui social network ha creato una cittadina di fondazione che ha chiamato "Assimilation". Case tutte uguali, tonalità pastello: un incubo svolazzante - anche per chi ha gusti meno insoliti degli Addams.
La designer si pone l'obiettivo di liberarsi della Famiglia dai gusti così poco canonici.
E noi tiferemo - fortissimo, come sempre - per gli Addams, che non sono cattivi come vengono disegnati.

Nonostante film e libro siano uno lo specchio dell'altro, per quanto mi riguarda ho trovato il libro assai superiore al suo corrispettivo su pellicola, anche perché meno "da bambini": il film è davvero troppo per i piccoli.
Vero, la storia è sempre quella, ma l'immaginazione di chi legge aggiunge dei dettagli che cambiano alcune sfumature e possono fare la differenza.
Anche per questa ragione, ne consiglio la lettura - dove possibile - prima di vedere il film.
A dirla tutta, potete anche evitarvelo il film...
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[Vivienne · Rating 4 out of 5]

My thanks to HarperCollins U.K. Children’s for an eARC via NetGalley of Calliope Glass’ ‘The Addams Family: the Story of the Movie’ in exchange for an honest review.

This is a novelisation of the upcoming animated Addams Family movie being released in October. Looking at the trailer for the film it’s nice to see that the creators have drawn inspiration from the original character designs.

Rather than have the Addams Family as long established residents of New England, here the story opens in the Old Country with the wedding of Gomez Addams to Morticia Frump during which villagers with torches and pitchforks show up. Having escaped the newlyweds wonder where they can go now? “The Frumps had been driven out of nearly every community in Western Europe by now, and the Addamses had exhausted all of Eastern Europe. There had just been so many pitchfork-wielding mobs over the last few centuries.”

So they opt for New Jersey and purchase a crumbling Gothic pile that had formerly been a hospital for the criminally insane. Thirteen years pass and the family keeps to themselves yet in the nearby Eastfield Estates, Margaux Needler, the reality tv star of ‘Design Intervention’ realises that the Addams Family mansion is spoiling the view of their new houses for sale! She is determined to rectify the situation one way or another.

I adored the Addams Family from an early age and am old enough to have watched the original tv series and later collected some of the anthologies of Charles Addams’ macabre drawings. Whether they encouraged me to love all things Gothic or I saw in them a reflection of my inclinations is hard to say.

This was a quick, fun read that provides a sense of the plot of the upcoming animated film and wetting the appetite for the film’s visuals. I am excited that a new generation of children will be introduced to the wonderfully spooky Addams Family and that both this book and the film has a clear message of tolerance towards those who are different.

[ᥫ᭡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great little book to match the films scenarios, well and beautifully written. Vividly detailed, I can picture it quite well.

[Lucy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you to Harper Collins and Netgalley for accepting my request to read this book.

I'll admit it, I absolutely love the Addams Family! I've loved the previous films and I adore the musical! I am also excited to watch the new animated movie so when I saw a movie tie-in book I knew I had to read it!

This book has everything I love about the Addams Family and I smiled all the way through reading it!

It begins with an Addams wedding, we see Gomez and Mortician get married and its a true Addams Family wedding! We meet a lot of the characters people will know such as Gomez, Morticia, Thing, Fester, Grandma Addams, Lurch, Pugsley, Wednesday and Cousin It. Plus many more Addamses and other folk.

Gomez and Moricia move into an abandoned mansion (previously an asylum) in New Jersey where they are hidden from the town my a bog and fog until they are revealed. The town looks to be a nice town with normal people. The town is part of a to show hosted by Margaux who takes a dislike to the strangeness that is the Addams Family.

I really enjoyed reading this! It has everything I love about the Addams Family in it and I am super excited to see it animated! If you want a quick Halloween read than I would highly recommend this book!

[Joey Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you to Harper Collins U.K., Children’s for sending me an ebook review copy through NetGalley of The Addams Family: The Story Of The Movie written by Calliope Glass.

I really enjoyed reading this book, it was a whole new take on what we know of the Addams Family but it worked really well. It had modern elements mixed with their dark macabre world.

For 13 years they lived in an old asylum covered I. fog and didn’t know that a whole suburban town had been built near them created by a reality tv host who wants to build a perfect town and is desperate to remove the Addamses and their house from it.

I loved Wednesdays progression in the story wanting to know more of what was out there even though it wasn’t what her family did and in return she found a friend that liked her style of living more than what she originally had. Alongside with Pugsly having to learn his families traditional dance and fight to protect his family he had to learn and struggled to learn and desperately didn’t want to fail his family legacy.

I really liked how the two types of worlds collided and it was funny, it was entertaining and it was a very good easy read.