Scooby-Doo's Super Case Book

by Suzanne Weyn, Vicki Berger Erwin

SCOOBY-DOO is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past three generations. The snack-sniffing sleuth and his pals are in the midst of a huge popularity boom.

Jinkies! Like, ten all-new mysteries for Scooby-Doo and you to solve!

A scary wolfman... a vengeful pirate... a ghostly mare... an underwater monster... all sound like cases for the world's favorite chowhound, Scooby-Doo! Now you can help Scooby and his pals from Mystery, Inc. solve these mysteries and many more in Scholastic's first-ever collection of short Scooby mysteries.

Genres: Childrens

144 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2002

About the author

Suzanne Weyn grew up in Williston Park, Long Island, New York. She has three sisters and a brother. As a girl, she was very interested in theatre and in reading. Louisa May Alcott was her favorite author, but she also read every Sherlock Holmes story. Suzanne lived pretty close to the ocean and going to Jones Beach was one of her favorite activities. Even today, if she goes too long without seeing the ocean, she starts feeling restless.

Suzanne now lives in upper New York State with her husband, two teen daughters and Abby the cat. Her house is at the edge of the woods and is nearly 200 years old. She graduated from State University of New York at Binghamton and received her master's degree from Pace University. She teaches part-time at City College in New York.

Suzanne's other books for Simon Pulse include South Beach Sizzle, a romantic comedy written with Diana Gonzalez. Her novels for the Simon Pulse line "Once Upon a Time" are The Night Dance: A Retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, Water Song: A Retelling of the Frog Prince, and The Crimson Thread: A Retelling of Rumplestiltskin. She very much enjoys rethinking these classic tales from an original point of view, always looking for the real psychological underpinning of the story. Suzanne is currently doing revisions on her fourth book in the line, which will be coming in 2009.

Suzanne's other recent novels are include The Bar Code Tattoo (2004) and its sequel, The Bar Code Rebellion (2006). The Bar Code Tattoo was selected by the American Library Assoc. (ALA) as a 2005 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and was a 2007 Nevada Library nominee for Best Young Adult Fiction. It is currently translated into German and was nominated for the 2007 Jugenliteraturpreis for Young People's Literature.

Reviews

[Nikki · Rating 2 out of 5]

First off, boy and girl cows can both have horns. Just because a cow has horns does not mean it’s a bull and just because a cow does not have horns does not mean it’s a girl. Girl cows can have horns just like bulls can and bulls can not have horns just like girl cows can. The last story is about a barbecue cook off and I don’t know how many times the characters said that a cow was a bull because it has horns and only bulls have horns which is entirely untrue. I hate when authors write children’s books and they get published and they have incorrect facts in them. We should be giving our kids quality literature with true facts in it, and it bothers me when authors, editors, and publishers let things slide because it’s just a kids’ book. Check your facts authors and make sure they’re right before you get your book published! A simple Google search will tell you that both boy and girl cows can have horns.

Anyway, other than that this book still wasn’t that good. I read the second book first, since they do not have to be read in order, and I really enjoyed it, but this one wasn’t as good and some of the stories were just plain bad. Almost all of the stories just suddenly ended right when the story was starting to pick up momentum and someone in the gang would just say they knew who did it and the bad guy would just stop and wonder how they knew. Then each story had a mystery revealed section where the author pretty much much just explained the clues and how the gang figured it out. It was rarely even told in story form. The mysteries themselves were interesting but this book as a whole was just not written well for a collection of short stories. I would recommend the second book in this series but not this one. I feel like I just wasted my money purchasing this book.

[Conan Tigard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Scooby-Doo's Super Case Book is a fun collection of short stories that kids will enjoy solving. When I read a story to my daughter One mystery case a night for 10 nights, we would talk about the clues in each case and try to guess who the culprit was. Most of the time we were wrong, but sometimes we got it right. Having the reader try and figure out who did it added and extra bit of fun to the book.

Scooby-Doo's Super Case Book is probably aimed at 3rd to 5th graders, but can be enjoyed by all.

I rated this book a 7 out of 10.