Not Very Scary

Reviewed by: Sally Holt - Raymond Village Library, Raymond, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: October 6, 2014

Review

Quaint illustrations. I like the title of the book. Halloween can be a scary time for some young children and this book will help to demystify and instead, delight. Melly, the vampire gets an invite to a Halloween Party and on the way she feels she is being followed and she is....by every type of Halloween character one can think of. This is a counting book beginning with one cat following her and than two skeletons....etc. By the time Melly gets to her three-eyed friend's house she is totally scared out of her mind....but literally gets a nice surprise party with all the "not very scary" new friends there to celebrate with. If Halloween is scary to a child this is a perfect book to read to him/her.

Overall Book Score: excellent