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Mary Scary

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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!

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