Guess what? I get to do parent/child book club at the library again! This time I am doing the girl's group. The person who was doing it before had scheduled to do Coraline next month. I really disliked Coraline, thinking that it was way too scary. So I asked if I could do another book. My boss wanted me to do a book from the Horror genre so I looked through our pre-existing book club sets and chose this one.Fernie's father is a safety inspector and is paranoid about everything. In contrast, Fernie, her sister, Pearlie, and their mother are born adventurers. When they move into a new house, Fernie's father is concerned about the dark spooky house across the street. Its only (living) resident is a boy named Gustav who always looks sad. One night Fernie's cat runs across the street and into the yard of the spooky house. Fernie runs after it, and begins a creepy and sometimes terrifying adventure where she meets the People Taker, his Beast, and makes a new friend, Gustav.
This was cute, with a sprinkling of scary and exciting. It is a good mix of the three at an appropriate level for the age group I am working with (9-12 and their parent). I plan to talk about elements of horror writing and illustrating, and I think we will do either shadow pictures or puppets for a craft. (226 p. 2012)
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