Chill Out Scooby-Doo

by Jesse Leon McCann, Duendes del Sur (Illustrator), Michael Massen

SCOOBY-DOO is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past 3 generations. This book is one of two tie-ins to the latest in WB's hit series of home videos.

Get ready for the ultimate chiller - in China! What was supposed to be excitement in Paris turns to horror from the Himalayas, one of the Earth's most remote landscapes, when Shaggy and Scooby come face-to-frightening-face with a terror greater than free-falling thousands of
feet -- the legendary Abominable Snowman! The gang must climb icy cliffs, race through ancient temples and venture into secret ice caves within Mount Everest to reach the hidden city of Shangri-La and crack the mystery behind the chilling snow monster before it has a chance to put Shaggy and Scooby on ice -- forever!

Genres: Childrens, Fiction

24 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2007

About the author

Jesse Leon McCann is an American comic book and children's book author. He wrote most of the stories for the Pinky and the Brain comic series, edited two out of the four Simpsons episode guides, and wrote all of the Smiley the Psychotic Button comics for Chaos! Comics. McCann's Shrek II movie adaptation novel made the New York Times Best Selling Children's Book list in 2005. While McCann mostly scribes comic books and children's books, he has written for a variety of genres in different forms (such as the Austin Powers trivia game).

Reviews

[midnightfaerie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun Scooby-Doo story for any lover of this character, but at least a level 3 reading level if not harder. My son already has trouble with Scooby's "accent", with every other word beginning with the letter "R". But this has quite a few bigger words that leads me to believe the author cared more about the story than making it easy to understand for children. In any case, my 5 yr old still liked it, especially the ending.

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

We are fans of all things Scooby-Doo and so we are always on the lookout for another book starring this famous dog and the gang when we go to our local library. Lucky for us, there are a lot of beginning reader books, movie tie-ins, case files and chapter books.

This is a short and very simplistic summary of the animated movie. We've seen the movie multiple times, so there was no surprise at the various plot twists or the ending. The illustrations are great, as always, and we enjoyed reading this book together.

[Skylar Burris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Like, rikes, but this seems to leave out a lot of narration. Things are happening in the pictures that aren't necessarily happening in the poorly written story. My children do love Scooby Doo, however. I never planned to read such a book...and I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those pesky kids.

[Melissa Namba · Rating 2 out of 5]

Waaaaay too wordy for the intended audience. The criminal is not the one disguised as the Yeti, because the Yeti is in love with another character, which I guess is what makes it ok to dress up like a monster? Also, the costume is filled with helium, and breathing that much helium while in the Himalayas? Science apparently doesn't really count.

[Kristen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a cute book from the library. Our children really enjoy the Scooby Gang so we have read many books about their adventures.

I found this edition to be easy to read aloud to our children. It was not too complicated but still had the usual surprise as to who was the Monster.

[Mikayla · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5*

[Rosa Cline · Rating 3 out of 5]

This Scooby book is based off the television program of the same name. There isn't much difference between the two so if your youngster is 'hard core' on the show they shouldn't be disappointed in the book.

[Mary Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this because my daughter brought it home from school.