Customer Reviews

The Fright Before Christmas (Bunnicula and Friends Ready-to-Read)

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All of our children are heavy readers, and my pair of 4th graders love these books, Howe keeps them on the edge of their seats with all of his books.

My children (5 and 7) both loved this book. Both could read it easily. The longer Bunnicula books are much more humorous, but these books are probably easier for a 5 or 6 year old to read and comprehend.

Since it is the holiday season, I've been checking out many Christmas and holiday themed books from the library. My kindergartner loves these readers (Bunnicula and Friends) because they are fun, with interesting plots, and an element of mystery (she loves mysteries). In The Fright Before Christmas, Chester the cat and Harold the dog decide to investigate a series of strange sounds and happenings at their home. Howie the puppy is afraid of Santa, and these strange happenings are making the puppy extremely nervous. It is left to Chester and Harold to solve the mystery. Chester suspects Bunnicula, the 'vampire' bunny, but all is happily resolved in the end.

The story is written in a series of chapters, and each chapter heading will entice young readers to want to discover what happens next, "A Scary Christmas", "Strange Noises", "The Cellar", "The Ghost", "A Merry Christmas". This is a Level 3 reader and my kindergartner was able to read it with relative ease. According to the back jacket, a Level 3 reader here is described as "reading proficiently, with a rich vocabulary, more challenging stories, and longer chapters." She did get weary after reading the first two chapters, so we read this over several nights.