When Scooby and the gang visit an opera house, they¹re afraid they will be bred to tears. But an ogre starts making trouble, and soon Scooby and Shaggy are scared to tears. Can Fred, Velma, and Daphne unmask the opera house ogre before it ropes their friends into the act?
Virginia Lee Burton won the Caldecott Medal in 1943 for her memorable picture book The Little House, a poignant story of a cute country cottage that becomes engulfed by the city that grows up around it. The house has an expressive face of windows and doors, and even the feelings of a person, so she’s sad when she’s surrounded by the dirty, noisy city’s hustle and bustle: “She missed the field of daisies / and the apple trees dancing in the moonlight.” Fortunately, there’s a happy ending, as the house is taken back to the country where she belongs. A classic!
In a cavern called The House of Thunder, Susan Thornton watched in terror as her lover died a brutal death in a college hazing. And in the following four years, the four young men who participated in that grim fraternity rite likewise died violently. Or did they? Twelve years later Susan wakes in a hospital bed. Apparently involved in a fatal accident, she is suffering from amnesia. She doesn't remember who she is or why she is there. All she knows is that her convalescence is unfolding into a fearful nightmare
Delightfully spooky fun abounds in a beginning reader that utilizes a simple vocabulary, full-color rebus illustrations, and twenty-four cut-out flash cards to reinforce reading skills.
