Customer Reviews

Bumps in the Night (First Choice Chapter Book)

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Dudley the stork takes his friends' advice and gets Madame Kreepy to conduct a seance. He needs to find out why wierd things happen at his house when he's trying to sleep. My two eight-year-old girls loved this book. Even their older sister thought it was funny. Our favorite line in the story is when the ghost tells Dudley "...I gave you a great, big, wet, kiss in the dark. Did you like it?" Nickelodeon should use this book as a basis for their next half-hour Halloween special!

I am a student at West Virginia State College currently taking a class called Children's Literature. Our instructor required us to read a banned/challenged book as part of our assignment and write our personal view of the book.

This is a hilarious book! I enjoyed reading it to my 8 year old son and he loved it. He thought it was so funny and not all scary. He loves scary stories, however, he did not find this book to be scary at all. I can see why some people might object to this book. It makes reference to a seance and a medium, but the book references it in a funny way and not at all serious. I would read this book to my classroom. I feel the children would enjoy and get a kick out of this book.

I recently came across Bumps in the Night on a 100 Most Challenged Books list. I was a little shocked and disheartened... I LOVED this book as a kid. The characters and illustrations are warm and silly, not at all scary. The story teaches us that with an open mind, even things we don't understand can be a little less scary. I highly recommend this book for anyone, young or old.

I'm so surprised to read that this is a challenged/banned book. I remember getting this book as a prize in school when I was in 1st grade, and it has been a favorite ever since. The story is fun, the characters are silly and entertaining, and I absolutely love the illustrations. I love the illustrations so much that I carefully cut out the page with the prayer at the beginning of the book and framed it (it is hanging in my hall now!). I still have my original copy of the book, and I read it to my son. Highly recommended...not at all scary!

I had this book as a child. It is so funny, I still remember it. All of Harry Allard's books are fantastic.

My five year old son came home last week with this book in his book bag. He had checked it out from the school library. When we finally sat down to read it last night I stopped mid story and told him we were not finishing it. Dudley the Stork is scared because his house is haunted, so he calls Trevor the Hog who tells him that he should talk to the ghost. Dudley the Stork says he'd be too scared to do a thing like that, so Trevor the Hog says there are people who talk to ghosts called mediums. Dudley the Stork asks how, so Trevor the Hog explains that you must hold a séance at midnight and sit in a circle with friends and hold hands.

I don't know what the heck some of these other reviewers are talking about when they say it's a funny book. There's nothing funny about it. There was not a single line that I read that could have been construed as comedy. Even with the little I did read I could tell my five year old was scared half to death with the talk of ghosts and things going bump in the night. That this book is aimed at young minds is especially disconcerting. It doesn't matter what the "lesson" of the book is, the way it is conveyed is abhorrent and young minds should not be subjected to such until they have the coping mechanisms to deal with it properly. I have to question any parent who would read this to his or her child without any reservations. If that's the kind of parents we have out there then it's no wonder our country is going down the tubes.

My little sister got this from her school's library...being a Christian family, I was extremely disappointed that this book contained quite objectionable content- it described a seance and had a medium. I am glad that I read it before letting my little sis read this again. For shame, Harry Allard, that you allow this content in children's books!