What's So Scary?

by John Stadler

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531303012
• ISBN13: 9780531303016
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Orchard (NY)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

Lots of fun and adventure!

This unique story is told from the point of view of a group of animal friends... the first three words of the story, in bold print, say, "What's so scary?" There is a picture of a huge pair of shoes, a pair of glasses (falling from a face we don't see), two legs which are standing around three opened pails of paint, and a paintbrush which is still resting on the head of an animated dog who is holding a book in his hand and who gives his explanation for what is so scary... and what is so scary changes from page to page as various animals exclaim and comment (the humor of what they say will have kids and adults both smiling) and stick together as they try to flee from a great tidal wave (and ensuing flood) of paint from the spilled paint cans. Finally, the illustrator (one of the animals asks, "what's wrong with him") is seen, brush in hand...he trips, and the brush lands in the dog's hands. What the dog paints (wings on the elephant, for example - whereas a couple of pages before, the alligator was commenting as to how heavy the elephant was, now the elephant is commenting on how heave all the other animals are that he's carrying when he's flying) makes for a delightful conclusion to this fun-filled book.