Fright School

by Janet Lawler, Chiara Galletti (Illustrator)

Overview

School's in session for little monsters learning the fine art of fright!

On darkened autumn nights, unusual students head to school—Fright School! In this hilarious story, little monsters learn the art of scaring trick-or-treaters. Follow zombies, ghouls, ghosts and many more creepy creatures as they study the most spooktacular ways to terrify their guests. Will they be able to perfect their frightening ways before Halloween? You be the judge!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807525555
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	09/07/2023
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	AD800L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Janet Lawler's critically acclaimed books have appeared in Scholastic Book Clubs and the Children's Book of the Month Club. Recent work includes Ocean Counting (an NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book), Love is Real (HarperCollins, 2014), and Leaves (Jumping Jack Press, 2017). She loves sharing the humor of everyday life with young readers. Janet lives in Farmington, CT.

Chiara Galletti is a children's book illustrator and character designer. She has a degree in advertising at the University for Foreigners of Perugia and a specialization in E-design at the Academy of Digital Arts Nemo Florence. Currently she organizes digital drawing workshop for teens at Biblioteca delle Nuvole of Perugia. She lives in Italy.

Editorial Reviews

"Where else but Fright School will goblins, ghosts, and ghouls learn to scare trick-or-treaters? Readers may pick up a few frightening pointers of their own for Halloween night."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2018-07-16
Where else but Fright School will goblins, ghosts, and ghouls learn to scare trick-or-treaters?Human schools might not expect their students to learn how to "moan," "leer," or "swoop" (or hold graduation in October), but other parts of Fright School will seem quite familiar, if with an eerie twist. There are picky eaters in the lunchroom ("Our apples don't taste rotten!") as well as students who will eat seemingly anything, and at recess, the jungle gym is popular with the spiders. On the way in, "The janitor tells birds of prey / to wipe their dirty claws. / The nurse yells from her office, / ‘Hey, I'm running out of gauze!' " (Both nurse and patients are mummies.) But although the students have learned all kinds of things, courage is not among them: When there's a knock at the door, the students run away at the sight of three costumed trick-or-treaters: cowboy and princess who present white and a pirate (with eye patch) who presents black. Lawler's rhythm and rhyme are mostly spot-on. Galletti's seemingly digital illustrations display a delightful array of student stereotypes, including a nerdy cat with a ruler, a bat with braces, an ultra-girly witch bedecked in pink, and a skeleton who skateboards into class. Readers may pick up a few frightening pointers of their own for Halloween night, but will they make the grade? (Picture book. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews