Mary Scary [Hardcover]

Andrew Cosby (Author), Troy Nixey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 12, 2007

Last year, Dark Horse Books introduced readers to Dreadful Ed - a very normal, very nice human boy who winds up as heir to the throne of the nightmare world called Nocturnia! In this stand-alone sequel to that fantastical story we meet Mary Scary - the weird baby girl who was swapped out for Ed when her parents, the Boogeyman and his wife, needed a male heir for their spooky kingdom! Mary has always been different from the rest of her peers. Maybe it's the spider on her head, maybe it's the snake around her neck... but something about her makes everything about her weird! And just when it really starts to bother her that everyone seems to notice how different she is, she meets someone who might be able to help her be less scary - a very normal boy named Ed.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 56 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (June 12, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593077300
• ISBN-13: 978-1593077303
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,987,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great story, beautiful illustrations and color, September 15, 2007

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girleye (San Diego,CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mary Scary (Hardcover)

I bought several copies of this for my friends with kids and everyone loved it! Now I have to buy more for the people I forgot! Even the adults want to read it an look at the pictures!

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5.0 out of 5 stars KIDS AND ADULTS WILL LOVE SCARY MARY!, July 1, 2007

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Tim Janson (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mary Scary (Hardcover)

Mary Scary is a sequel to last year's Dreadful Ed. In that book, the Queen of the nightmare world of Noturnia, a realms of ghosts and ghouls and all manner of creatures that go bump in the night, decides to replace her girl baby with a boy from the human world to give her husband an heir to the throne. Poor Ed was a normal human kid who had to learn how to try and be scary...But whatever happened to that girl who was swapped at the orphanage with Ed? This is her tale...

Mary Scary was a weird girl, that much the nuns at the orphanage knew right away. Rather than being made up of sugar and spice and everything nice, Mary dressed all in black and was made up of snakes, rats, bats, and grimy goo! It took some time but they finally found parents to adopt Mary Scary. Try as she might, Mary just never fit in at school. The other kids at school made fun of Mary by dressing just like her for Halloween. Then one day, Dreadful Ed, the son of the Boogeyman, tries to scare mary but fails. They soon recognize that they can help each other. Mary can teach Ed to be Scary, and Ed can teach Mary to be normal.

Mary Scary is a combination of Tim Burton's Nightmare before Christmas and Charles Addams' Addams Family comic strips. It is delightfully ghoulish, but in a harmless, fun kind of way. This makes the book very suitable to be read to children as they will surely appreciate the hilarious rhymes. Troy Nixey's art is the perfect complement to Andrew Cosby's story. The art is outlandish, colorful, and full of surprises. Well-suited for kids or adults.

REVIEWED BY TIM JANSON