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Summary: What fun!
Review: Carl Reiner is the perfect cozy grandfather to tell this somewhat spooky tale. The art is great and the audio even better. A fun tale for Halloween.
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Summary: What fun!
Review: I bought this book on the strength of the excellence of James Bennett's work with Jerry Seinfeld, and the quality of that story and its companion live CD. Unfortunately, however, Carl Reiner has written a bland and empty story which my kids and I found totally uninteresting. Ditto for the unimaginative reading on the accompanying CD. James Bennett's illustrations saved this from being a 1 star review.
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Summary: Excellent "scary" story!
Review: I used this in my school class and they loved it! We listened to the story first and got all giggly; they did talk back to the CD as it became scarier and he kept asking if they were to scared. But it was all good fun and they couldn't wait until the end. Then we had to read it again with the CD and the book. This is an excellent story to start discussing strangers, people are not as they appear, sneaking around and spying on others, danger and many other related subjects. Carl Reiner did a good job!
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Summary: We teach our kids NOT to go inside a stranger's house ....
Review: I was unsettled reading this book -- regarding the reference in which the young boy enters a (very) stange man's house, and is pulled down the basement stairs into his "evil lair", if you will. Loved the quality of the illustrations -- but, being a mother of young children, and visually seeing a boy being pulled down into a basement by this strange man, was much too unsettling for me! We all teach our children to avoid stangers at all cost .. this book just encourages it.
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Summary: We teach our kids NOT to go inside a stranger's house ....
Review: I was unsettled reading this book -- regarding the reference in which the young boy enters a (very) stange man's house, and is pulled down the basement stairs into his "evil lair", if you will. Loved the quality of the illustrations -- but, being a mother of young children, and visually seeing a boy being pulled down into a basement by this strange man, was much too unsettling for me! We all teach our children to avoid stangers at all cost .. this book just encourages it.
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Summary: spooky fun for kids AND adults!
Review: My 4yr old found this book at the library and HAD to borrow it. Looks like we'll end up buying it because it really is a fun one, esp on Halloween! It comes with a CD and is narrated by Carl Reiner. The story is about a boy who doesn't like his neighbor, Mr. Neewollah, who has a crooked smile...but one day finds a "staring" marble drop from a box his neighbor is carrying. Terrific illustrations that are fun and spooky for children AND adults! This will be a fun one to pull out every Halloween for a little spook!
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