Vampire Zoo Hullabaloo

by Michael Anthony Steele, Scott Jeralds (Illustrator)

Jinkies! A zoo owner is having trouble keeping workers because... vampires are on the loose! Scooby-Doo and the gang are on a mission to find out what's haunting the old zoo and who's behind this mystery.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Childrens

113 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 1, 2018

About the author

Michael Anthony Steele is an author and screenwriter living in Dallas, Texas. He’s written for a wide variety of entertainment and educational properties from Barney & Friends to the novelization of the recent film, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. He’s written over 60 licensed books for such major properties as Shrek, Penguins of Madagascar, Wordgirl, The Batman, Garfield, Spider-man, Speed Racer, Winx Club, Sly Cooper, and many more. Anthony’s television experience begins with the award-winning PBS series Wishbone and carries him all the way to writing 25 episodes of Barney & Friends and 4 DVDs of Boz: The Green Bear Next Door.

Between writing projects, Anthony is thrilled to give presentations to schools and libraries across the country. Having been fortunate enough to write for so many famous brands, his appearances require very little preparation on the part of the instructors because, most likely, the kids are fans of one or more of the properties for which he’s written.

Anthony’s current presentation features multimedia elements and tells the story of how he became a writer—following an exciting path through a career in photography and special effects. His appearances have been described as the “rock-n-roll” author visits since he comes with an animated presentation, humor, audio/visual elements, loads of energy, and a guitar—that’s right, a guitar!

His life’s journey has given him unique experience and the ability to share behind-the-scenes knowledge, tell stories, and answer questions not only about writing but also about the film and television industry. More importantly, the main theme of his program is how, with hard work and determination, the students can achieve anything they wish. Anthony was in elementary school when he was first inspired to become a writer and they too can get inspired right now! It’s just that simple and exciting!

Reviews

[Terri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Scooby and the gang go to a Zoo where all the employees are disappearing and vampires are being seen. A fun advanture.

[Nikki · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute Scooby book but it needs some work. The middle chapters have the gang split up, which is pretty common for a Scooby book, but each chapter focuses on one group then when that chapter ends you switch to the other group. That makes sense but it just didn’t flow well in this book. Each chapter just seemed to suddenly end and then all of the sudden you’re with the other group while they do something completely different then that chapter suddenly ends and you’re back with the first group picking up right where you left off with them. It was almost like reading two stories at the same time. Also, some of the pictures didn’t match up with the story. For example, there would be a picture of what’s happening with the whole gang together but then they’d move on from that and be doing something else and then one of the gang members would show up that were in the picture of what was going on before but according to the writing they had been somewhere else. Overall it was a cute story and a decent mystery. I just wish it had been done a little better.

[Adrienna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy read. Funny.