Scooby-Doo! Museum Madness

by Jesse Leon McCann, Duendes del Sur (Illustrator), Michael Massen

Join the Mystery, Inc gang on a brand new Scooby-Doo adventure!

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Mystery

24 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2008

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

[Gerry]

Since watching Scooby-Doo with my daughter many years ago I have always been a fan (I have a largish cut out in rubber on the wall of my landing!) so when I spotted this book I had to have it to give her as a present (just right for a 40-year-old). But I chose to read it first (value for money).

In this tale, Scooby-Doo and his pals from Mystery, Inc., Daphne, Shaggy, Velda and Fred, are invited to a party at a big museum in Cairo. The party was to announce a new exhibition, featuring the tomb and relics of the ancient Egyptian king, King Shaggunkamen!

The museum curator Lotta Kayre (great name!) told the guests to enjoy themselves but to beware of the curse of King Shaggunkamen. While the guests enjoy the hospitality, Lord Dusty Diggs, a famous Egyptologist, and Pierce Deere, an artist, complain about the exhibition for one reason or another.

Meanwhile Shaggy drops a spring roll, which rolls into the then closed exhibition area. He and Scooby crawl under the ropes to retrieve it and that starts a series of weird events that seem to prove that there really is a curse of King Shaggunkamen. Suddenly all the gang are involved in the behind the scenes action which finds them imperilled by Iona Bunch, who initially wanted to buy the artefacts for herself, and her bodyguards, who are made up as mummies.

Fortunately, as we would expect, Scooby and his pals prove to be too resourceful for Iona to succeed and the baddies are eventually captured in some urns. So, the following day the exhibition is launched with Lotta publicly thanking Scooby-Doo who replies, inevitably, with 'Scooby-dooby-doo'!

A fun, well illustrated read.

[Jeffrey]

For what it is, an entertaining read with some mildly amusing puns for the parent and, most admirably, more than one suspect.

[Dolly]

We just love Scooby-doo and we borrow as many books and comic books as we can find. This is a fun mystery with an ancient Egyptian theme and a scary mummy, of course. This book was fun to read aloud, but I think it would be best suited for young elementary school-age children who enjoy reading comic books and graphic novels.

[Matthew]

My weakness for Scooby-Doo is proven for my love for this short Scooby-Doo tale about a museum exhibit in Cairo disrupted by the mummified remains of King Shaggunkamen coming to life! But luckily, the Mystery Inc. gang is on the case!

Really, really cute!

[Kaethe]

Not the worst Scooby Doo book ever, although they're all extremely silly. We have a weakness for the Gang at our house.

[Annamariebrown]

i like it i love scooby-Doo!

[Mary Ann]

Quick read for little readers.

[C. John Kerry]

Another typical Scooby-Doo mystery, this one with a mummy of an ancient Egyptian pharoah and some of his followers wondering around the museum which is hosting an exhibit of items from his tomb. We also have three suspects for the pharoah, an disgruntled artist who had an exhibit of his work cancelled so that this show could take place, an archaeologist, British I suspect, who doesn't think disturbing the tomb was a good idea, and a society lady who made an offer to buy the jewels but saw the museum rebuff her offer for the weird reason, at least weird to her, that everyone should get the oppurtunity to see the jewels. After everyone runs around the museum Freddie comes up with a trap using urns to catch everyone. And of course the lead villain is unmasked. Who was it? Ah, that would be telling. Happy reading.

[Nicola]

I loved Scooby Doo as a kid so it's fun starting to find the picture books to read with Miss 2. This one involves the Mystery Inc. gang attending a museum opening, there are scary mummies and various hijinks before they reveal who has been behind the plot.

[Melissa Namba]

kind of lame because there is really only one potential criminal introduced. and of course, it's her. kind of long winded for a children's book

[Danielle]

As always, the villain is rich people. This was fun and I really enjoyed the artwork.

[Stephen Snyder]

My preschoolers really enjoyed this book.

Bravo Jesse Leon Lawrence!

Thank youbfor the loan Franklin Public Library!

[Shobnom]

2nd one of this

[Dana and Sonja]

Great book for teaching inferences! Follow the clues, characters' motives, and suspects to solve the crime. Can use the pictures as clues too. Love it for teaching inferencing in reading OR as a mentor text for writing mystery fiction.

[Andy]

Cute story, reminded of watching the show as a kid