Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Ghost

by Jesse Leon McCann, Dan Davis (Illustrator)

Scooby travels to Japan in this brand new original 8x8!

The gang from Mystery, Inc. are heading to Japan to solve a truly creepy mystery-the ghost of an ancient Samurai warrior is haunting a construction site! But Fred, Daphne, and Velma smell something fishy in the land of the rising sun, and it isn't the sushi! Can Scooby, Shaggy, and the gang solve this mystery before it's too late?

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Mystery

24 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2005

About the author

Jesse Leon McCann is an American comic book and children's book author. He wrote most of the stories for the Pinky and the Brain comic series, edited two out of the four Simpsons episode guides, and wrote all of the Smiley the Psychotic Button comics for Chaos! Comics. McCann's Shrek II movie adaptation novel made the New York Times Best Selling Children's Book list in 2005. While McCann mostly scribes comic books and children's books, he has written for a variety of genres in different forms (such as the Austin Powers trivia game).

Reviews

[Arminzerella]

Truncated story, but little kids who enjoy watching Scooby-Doo cartoons will also probably enjoy these stories/adaptations of the popular TV show. The vocabulary can be a bit out of range for beginning readers, but would work just fine for a read-aloud.

[Wade]

The ending didn’t make a lot of sense. Rorry Raggy.

[Rosa Cline]

I personally have never watched the cartoon that this is based off of, but my special needs son has and as I was reading this to his brother he was 'listening' as he played and even he didn't like it that much. In summarizing the story the author left out quite a bit so the story was very 'choppy' and at times you didn't really know 'why' something was happening because they had left out important details. But my two special needs sons are hard core Scooby fans so they both were glad I read it to them but they didn't get 'excited' like they normally do with other Scooby books.

[Dolly]

This is a fairly typical Scooby-Doo story, taking the gang to Japan. It's a short picture-book adaptation/tie-in to the animated movie that bears the same title. We enjoyed reading it together, as much as all of the Scooby-Doo stories we read.

[Mary Ann]

Another quick read.