Vampirina in the Snow by Anne Marie Pace - ADVISABLE

Vampirina in the Snow by Anne Marie Pace, illustrated by Leuyen Pham. PICTURE BOOK. Disney, 2018. $18. 9781368023184

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - ADVISABLE 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

There is a storm heading toward a group of monsters and this book lists the things to do when a storm comes. This list includes dressing warmly, catching snowflakes on your tongue, and sledding. The pictures add the details and humor to the text. For example, when they sled, they are sledding in coffins and tombstones.  

I was not very impressed with this book, but there are a lot of readers who will enjoy it simply because they know of Vamperina from television. I thought the story was boring and it was clunky the read aloud. There is a fold out page, and these are usually used to reveal something unexpected or special, but it was just a normal sequence of pages behind the flaps.  

Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher