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The House That Drac Built

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This is one of the only books I'm willing to pay my own shipping to return it. I bought this because I liked 'Twas the Fright Before Christmas, and I liked the unique yet cute artwork of all the monsters in it and the details in the background. But this book, The House that Drac Built-- it's hard to believe it's the same artist! I have tons of picture books, and this has the ugliest artwork of them all. The manicore is gross-- a weird face and sausage-link tail. I didn't find the artwork creepy or scary in the way I'd love to see in a Halloween book for a change, but this art was just completely unappealing. I love Halloween picture books, but I highly recommend In the Haunted House and The Bones of Fred McFee, both by Eve Bunting, Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson, The Old Lady who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams, or for an edgier book, Cinderella Skeleton Robert D. San Souci all over this one.

I am a student studying to be a teacher at UNL. I used The House That Drac Built for a lesson on counting. I created a felt board and allowed the children to add the characters as I read. We counted them and then took them away at the end when the children arrive at Drac's home. I found this book to be very entertaing and useful in my lesson. It served as a perfect way to integrate literature into my Math lesson If you agree with me, please respond and let me know what you think! I would love to know what you think!

The book is absolutely not appropriate for the age given. The gruesome (editorial words above) characters build up from midly fearsome to a demon/devil feeding a bloody old/undead lady. The demon's name is the "Fiend of Bloodygore". No child should be exposed to this greusome artwork. The author attempts to make it a "Children's book" by entering children into the story at the end. SICK!

The artwork is wonderful, and it's a great read. It is worthy of the original "The house that Jack Built." Just a great story with beautiful illustrations that draw you in and make you want to linger on each page. Kindergarten teacher read it in my daughter's class and we fell in love with the book!

My five-year-old son loves this book. The artwork is fabulous. Very unique and clever. Also a bit scary. I like that you see a hint of the monster to come on each page. In the end, the trick-or-treating children help the monsters, thereby showing that the monsters are not as frightening as they originally appeared. We originally borrowed it from the library, but now I'm purchasing it from Amazon.

My 3 year old nephew adores this book. He is really into monsters and vampires and the like. Within just a few times of reading it, he now has memorized it and has a wonderful time with the words and expressions. I think he even loves to watch us adults have fun with him while we are going through the book. I adore watching him read it. It is a book I myself want to keep around for other kids as well.