About book Miss Smith And The Haunted Library (2009)
For fans of Miss Smith and her students, this is yet another adventure where characters from books come to life. This time they visit the library and spooky stories are read to them as part of a Halloween celebration. Before they know it there are monsters and vampires and ghosts, oh my! Everything from Marley's Ghost to the Headless Horseman shows up as the librarian, Virginia Creeper, reads to Miss Smith's class. But the fun has to end when the senior adults arrive for their book club meeting.Readers of books like the Bailey School Kids will have a few laughs as they watch the creepy characters invade the library. Michael Garland, Miss Smith and the Haunted Library (Dutton, 2009)Perhaps I've just missed it over the years, but I'm seeing a trend in childrens' books that I don't think was there before: the conceit of book characters coming to life when they're read about in books. I know this is at least the third time I've seen it in the last year. Maybe it's a function of my expectations (which were much lower with the others than they were here), but this was the least effective of the three. In this one, Miss Smith, a grade-school teacher, takes her class and her Incredible Storybook to the library, where she and the librarian read stories, whose protagonists materialize (Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolf Man, etc.) for a party with the kids. All must be put to rights when the Seniors' Book Club turns up, however. Cute, but rather slight. ** ½
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What a great book. It has great illustrations and a very funny story!
—cherry
