Mary McScary
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
BEWARE OF MARY MCSCARY, a fearless, fierce and funny new picture book heroine on a mission to scare her cousin Harry, from beloved, best-selling children's book icons, RL Stine and Marc Brown. A Barnes and Noble Halloween National Storytime pick! Meet Mary McScary. Mary likes to be scary. She scares her mom, her dad, her pets, and even a balloon! But there's just one person Mary can't scare -- her cousin, Harry McScary. He's not afraid of the usual things, like spiders, snakes, and other creepy crawlies. But Mary doesn't give up that easily, and one way or another she'll find a way to give Harry the scare of his life. . . Beware of Mary McScary!Renowned bestselling children's book talents R.L. Stine, creator of the Goosebumps series, and Marc Brown, creator of the Arthur Adventure series, join forces once again in a spine-tingling, wildly funny picture book story featuring a fearless anti-heroine that will have kids and their parents cheering, "BOOOOOO!"
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This second collaboration between Stine and Brown, after The Little Shop of Monsters, turns on one of the oldest jokes: boys hate being kissed by girls. Mary McScary, who "has fun scaring dogs" and "likes to scare goldfish, too," is primed to frighten her Cousin Harry. But sweet-natured Harry he's essentially Brown's Arthur without the self-doubt is so at home in the world that when Mary unleashes an angry gorilla, an asphyxiating snake, and a hungry hippo on him, he instantly establishes a relationship with all three creatures. It takes Mary's weaponized kiss proffered with the girliest of puckers to send Harry fleeing in horror. Brown's generous sense of scale plays up his pictures' lush textures and bold palette, and few artists are his match when it comes to making good-heartedness a compelling character trait. But there's no real tension: Mary is a one-dimensional brat (her last words are "I told you I was scary!"), and seeing the game-for-anything Harry bolt, even if a not-unreasonable reaction, feels stale. Ages 4 8.
