From the Publisher
An all-zombie-all-the-time zombiefest, featuring a bunch of grade-school kids, including protagonist Stink and his happy comrades… McDonald's feel-good tone is deeply encouraging for readers to get up and do this for themselves because it looks like so much darned fun.
—Kirkus Reviews
Gross, creepy, and hilarious, the latest simple chapter book about the young, mischievous grade-schooler Stink has even parents, teachers, and other grown-ups joining in the nonsense as they all celebrate the joy of reading... Kids will love the gruesome wordplay, and the digital artwork extends the uproar with spooky shadows like giant cobwebs and body parts, while zombies in school uniforms lurch down Main Street. Perfect for Halloween, this will make fun reading all year round.
—Booklist
School Library Journal - Audio
Gr 2–4—Stink and his friends, Sophie and Webster, can't wait to attend the Midnight Zombie Walk at the local bookstore to purchase the latest book in the Nightmare on Zombie Street series. They spend the week prior to the walk creating zombie costumes, having zombie sleepovers, eating zombie lunches, collecting money to purchase copies of the book, and participating in the "Million Minutes of Reading Contest." Educators will appreciate the fact that an extremely active boy is also very engaged in reading. Megan McDonald uses wordplay to create a zombie language in her novel (Candlewick, 2012), starting many words with "Z" and making up totally new words relating to body part humor. Spooky music introduces and concludes the book. At the end of each chapter, there are lists, haikus, and jokes related to facts about zombies. Barbara Rosenblat's narration easily distinguishes male and female characters, but some of the male voices are very similar. A great choice for libraries where the "Stink" or "Captain Underpants" series are popular.—Andria Donnelly, Cedar Lane Elementary, Ashburn, VA
Kirkus Reviews
An all-zombie-all-the-time zombiefest, featuring a bunch of grade-school kids, including protagonist Stink and his happy comrades. This story covers the few days preceding the much-anticipated Midnight Zombie Walk, when Stink and company will take to the streets in the time-honored stiff-armed, stiff-legged fashion. McDonald signals her intent on page one: "Stink and Webster were playing Attack of the Knitting Needle Zombies when Fred Zombie's eye fell off and rolled across the floor." The farce is as broad as the Atlantic, with enough spookiness just below the surface to provide the all-important shivers. Accompanied by Reynolds' drawings—dozens of scene-setting gems with good, creepy living dead—McDonald shapes chapters around zombie motifs: making zombie costumes, eating zombie fare at school, reading zombie books each other to reach the one-million-minutes-of-reading challenge. When the zombie walk happens, it delivers solid zombie awfulness. McDonald's feel-good tone is deeply encouraging for readers to get up and do this for themselves because it looks like so much darned fun, while the sub-message—that reading grows "strong hearts and minds," as well as teeth and bones—is enough of a vital interest to the story line to be taken at face value. A playful salute to those who (kind of…well, not really) like things that go bump in the night. (Fiction. 5-8)
