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Invisible Man's Socks

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A school class checks out the Museum of Little Horrors. Feeling they've been ripped off and with no staff around they start playing with and making fun of the exhibits. These include the title of the story, the socks worn by the invisible man which is the product that drove the class over the edge in the first place. It is only when Michael Pensley picks up the socks and claims they are real that the class still unbelieving the exhibits are real are pulled into line by their teachers (who joined in the bad behaviour). That evening each child or teacher exhibits symptoms of the exhibit they touched and ridiculed (belonging to werewolf, vampire, mummy, medusa, cannibal, Frankenstein's monster, cyclops, strangler etc). A very good, funny and decent length book that will satisfy adults as well as children. The poison pen cursed child, Veronica Miller has the funniest scenes as she writes thank you notes to relatives who have given her cheap and bad gifts, Alex Shearer could have written an entire novel on this character alone (and maybe he will one day).

This book kind of reminds me of the great Groosham Grange series by Anthony Horrowitz I read as a kid and if you liked this I highly recommend reading those if you haven't.

With heaps of kids though, invisible action is not large percentage of the overall story if invisible man related action was what you were after but for fans of that genre I still recommend getting this as the book is that good. If you want good fiction stories about being invisible the best two novels are Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H. F. Saint, Smoke by Donald E Westlake. These two books are adult fiction and maybe a bit above the reading level of some kids.

If junior fiction is all your looking for then the best of this genre are My Best Friend Is Invisible (Goosebumps) by R. L. Stine, You Are Invisible: CYOA #48 by Susan Saunders, The Invisible Day by Marthe Jocelyn, Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex, you can even get an illustrated version of H.G. Wells 1897 classic The Invisible Man (Great Illustrated Classics).