Vlad the Rad
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
NEW from the bestselling illustrator of Uni the Unicorn! A new mythical--and totally rad--character to laugh with and love.
Vlad is always getting in trouble at Miss Fussbucket's School for Aspiring Spooks. Unlike the other little vampires, witches, mummies, and ghosts, Vlad isn't very interested in learning spookiness. That's because...Vlad loves to skateboard! How can he possibly think about being a good spook when all he wants to do is practice his latest gnarly trick? Maybe Vlad can find a way to do both!
Brigette Barrager's debut author-illustrator project is full of energy, fun, and sweet tricks! Passionate kids will identify with Vlad, and will take heart from the way he combines his love of skateboarding with his schoolwork. A perfect Halloween read-aloud for the classroom!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A skateboarding-obsessed vampire's lack of interest in all things frightening irritates his headmistress in this tale by the illustrator of the Uni the Unicorn books. "Why can't you be more like your classmates and eerily float to class? Or ooze down the hallway quietly?" the founder of Miss Fussbucket's School for Aspiring Spooks asks as Vlad skates through a throng of students (two demons, a cyclops, and a black cat among them). Vlad's whizzing skateboard earns repeated reprimands and casts him as a "show-off" and "Bad Vlad" among his classmates. Finally, on a field trip to a museum, Vlad impresses the entire school by combining spookiness with skateboarding, zooming down a dinosaur skeleton and terrifying the other patrons. The single-note antagonism wears a tad thin throughout, but outr pictures of Vlad's classmates and over-the-top facial expressions should elicit chuckles. Ages 3 7.
