Vlad the Drac Vampire

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Summary: Vlad IS Funny!
Review: As a father of five, Vlad is experienced with babies. As soon as he hears about Paul and Judy's new baby sister, he rushes to help and the family is plunged into chaos. Mom suggests a sightseeing tour of London to get Vlad out of the house, but the trouble Vlad causes at home is nothing compared to what he manages on the town

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Summary: After Harry Potter, my daughter's favorite audiotape!
Review: The story of a tiny vampire who doesn't like meat, faints at the sight of blood, and who can't vampirize anyone is very funny and very well read with a lucious Central European accent by Brian Cant. Vlad is well known to the Stone family, and the children call to give him the news of the birth of their newest sibling, Zoe. Whereupon Vlad rushes to London "to help" much to the dismay of the children's parents--their father in particular. Vlad's adventures are somewhat on the order of Lucille Ball's--always well intended, but never very successful. He is rich in self pity, constantly bemoaning how lacking the rest of the world is in compassion and concern for him. "Poor Vlad, Poor Little Drac..." as he hijacks a double decker bus, decimates a dinosaur skeleton at the museum, and gets locked overnight at Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors.

Quite a charming adventure for children who think they love to be scared by vampires, but who prefer being made to laugh. Very amusing storytape (and book).