Scooby-Doo! In Jungle Jeopardy [Paperback]

Jesse Leon McCann (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up

Scooby and his friends are exploring the jungle! But soon the gang crosses paths with a crazed half-man, half-beast, who warns them to stay away. Now the whole gang is in jungle jeopardy . . . and there¹s only one way out. They¹ve got to stop that monster‹or else!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439260752
• ISBN-13: 978-0439260756
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #9 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Series > Favorite Characters > Scooby Doo

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun book, February 23, 2003

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Amy (Alexandria, Vatican City State (Holy See)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scooby-Doo! In Jungle Jeopardy (Paperback)

My three-year-old son loves Scooby Doo cartoons and I was pleased to find books related to the series that work well as books.

It's a standard Scooby Doo plot: the kids go to visit one of Daphne's teachers, Professor Peabody, who is on an archeology dig in Central America. He is searching for a lost Mayan pyramid, and when the gang starts getting close ferocious cat creatures try to chase them away. I'll let you guess the ending. *smile*

Things I like about this book include the following: a relatively high number of words per page (in other words, there is a lot of reading to be done in addition to looking at the pictures); real places and civilizations are used in the book (it really talks about the Mayans in Central America); and a couple of facts about bats are thrown in as part of the plot (vampire bats go after some fruit instead of Shaggy and Scoob). In addition, the bold pictures run right to the edge of the pages, making the book very attractive.

The things I don't really care for in this book are rather minor: the type is in an unusual font (which poses no problems while I'm reading the book to my son, but which may cause problems for beginning readers) and Shaggy's and Scooby's speech patterns are captured in print (like, Shaggy starts a lot of sentences with "like" and Scooby starts almost all of his words with "r").

All in all, this may not be great literature, but it's a very fun book that my son requests quite often. It's great to bridge the gap between TV and reading.