Dirk Bones and the Mystery of the Haunted House (I Can Read Book 1 Series)

by Doug Cushman, Doug Cushman (Illustrator)

Overview

An exciting, gently spooky, and fun early reader detective adventure!

You'll join School Library Journal is welcoming this Level One I Can Read "to the primer shelves both at Halloween time and throughout the year."

Dirk Bones and the Mystery of the Haunted House is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts of Level One books support success for children eager to start reading on their own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062025876
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/28/2011
Series:	I Can Read Book 1 Series
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	24 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Doug Cushman is the creator of many favorite mystery stories for young readers featuring such memorable heroes as the intrepid Aunt Eater, the grasshopper gumshoe Inspector Hopper, and the ace reporter Dirk Bones. He has also illustrated many books written by other authors, including Jack Prelutsky's What a Day It Was at School! He lives in Paris, France.

Editorial Reviews

K-Gr 2-Dirk Bones, a skeleton newspaper reporter for The Ghostly Tombs, is dispatched to a haunted house on Ghoul Street, where the residents complain about spooky noises coming from their cellar. Dirk's investigation leads him to the nearby graveyard, where the sounds are traced to a crypt containing a bubbling soup pot and a vampire who is writing a cookbook. Cushman's illustrations are delightfully silly and spirited; his hilarious plot will please youngsters who often claim that they want horror but are relieved to get humor instead. This title has more sentences per page and more sophisticated puns than the usual "Level 1" reader. However, librarians, whose focus is not exclusively decoding, will welcome this addition to the primer shelves both at Halloween time and throughout the year.-Gloria Koster, West School, New Canaan, CT Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

The creator of Aunt Eater and Inspector Hopper opens a new easy-reader series featuring an even less conventional sleuth. Two specters haunting a house in the aptly named town of Ghostly are frightened by mysterious, un-ghostly clackings and clickings. Enter Dirk Bones, skeletal investigative journalist for the Ghostly Tombs. Properly outfitted in trench coat and green fedora, Bones sets out into a stormy night on a successful investigation that takes him from creepy basement to spooky graveyard, and includes encounters with a terrified werewolf, a vampire Emeril wannabe and other typical town residents-all easily recognizable but decidedly non-menacing figures in the cartoon illustrations. A burbling cauldron of "bat foot stew with crispy worm brains" is but one of the shivery delights that await emergent readers in this not-too-creepy caper. Stay tuned for sequels. (Easy reader. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews

Cushman’s illustrations are delightfully silly and spirited; his hilarious plot will please youngsters who often claim that they want horror but are relieved to find humor instead.” — School Library Journal

“Shivery delights await emergent readers in this not-too-creepy caper.” — Kirkus Reviews

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