Bunnicula Escapes!: A Pop-Up Adventure [Hardcover]

James Howe (Author), Lea Daniel (Illustrator), Alan Daniel (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Series: Bunnicula

An exciting pop-up book finds Bunnicula, the vampire bunny, and all his animal friends, including Harold the Dog and Chester the Cat, making complete chaos out of the country fair.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The vampire bunny goes 3-D in this peppy pop-up. The Monroe family is sampling the attractions at the county fair while Harold the dog, Chester the cat, Howard the puppy and Bunnicula wait in the station wagon for the start of the pet show. When the reader opens the flap that represents the rear door of the car, however, Bunnicula springs from his cage, startling the other animals, who leap up from their resting places in the back seat. Determined to save the fair-goers from Bunnicula's nefarious ways, Chester spearheads a chase that the reader can join. A series of pull-tabs follows the animals as all of them (except Bunnicula) become the targets of pitchers at a "dunk-em" booth; goggle at their reflections in a hall of mirrors; ride through a spook house (here, Bunnicula can be found under a tombstone, leaping from the silk-lined casket of Dracula himself); zoom on a rollercoaster; and end up in a magician's act. Text and pop-ups are unusually well integrated, each element advancing the story line. A blue-ribbon presentation. Ages 4-up.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 12 pages
• Publisher: HarperFestival; Pop edition (September 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 068813212X
• ISBN-13: 978-0688132125
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,830,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

James Howe has written more than eighty books in the thirty-plus years he's been writing for young readers. It sometimes confuses people that the author of the humorous Bunnicula series also wrote the dark young adult novel, The Watcher, or such beginning reader series as Pinky and Rex and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award-winning Houndsley and Catina and its sequels. But from the beginning of his career (which came about somewhat by accident after asking himself what kind of vampire a rabbit might make), he has been most interested in letting his imagination take him in whatever direction it cared to. So far, his imagination has led him to picture books, such as I Wish I Were a Butterfly and Brontorina (about a dinosaur who dreams of being a ballerina), mysteries, poetry (in the upcoming Addie on the Inside), and fiction that deals with issues that matter deeply to him. He is especially proud of The Misfits, which inspired national No Name-Calling Week (www.nonamecallingweek.org) and its sequel Totally Joe. He does not know where his imagination will take him in the next thirty-plus years, but he is looking forward to finding out.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five stars for ages 4-8,a great book, March 13, 2000

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Jessica Brown (Ontario,Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bunnicula Escapes!: A Pop-Up Adventure (Hardcover)

This book is great for young readers who are just getting interested in books.It attracts children with its great tale of adventure.So join Harold,Chester,and Harold on the wild search to find Bunnicula the Vampire before he uses his powers to conquer the world.

0 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid it all cost!, February 27, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Bunnicula Escapes!: A Pop-Up Adventure (Hardcover)

This is most certainly the worst trash marketed to young children one could find. Poorly written story of a "vampire rabbit" that is totally inappropriate for the targeted audience.