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Scooby-Doo! The Essential Guide
Glenn Dakin covers the characters, locations and key moments from the 'Scooby- Doo' animated tv series, featuring Scooby himself, Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy.
- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
48 pages, Hardcover
First published February 16, 2004
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February 16, 2016
What could be better than a Great Dane and his four companions from their home town of Coolsville forming a detective agency named Mystery Inc. and then going on to solve many and varied crimes. Nothing, I suggest!
I came to know Scooby-Doo when my daughter was young and we watched it together on television and then had a Scooby-Doo mystery game which we played regularly. I quickly began to fall in love with the Great Dane (even though I am really a cat person).
Of his companions, Shaggy was really a scaredy-cat who would rather eat pizzas than solve mysteries, and Fred Jones was a clean-cut handsome hero who not only solved mysteries but invented crazy traps to catch ghosts (for many such entered the world of Scooby-Doo!). Daphne was an attractive cool redhead who loved a good mystery and was unofficially second in command of Mystery Inc. while Velma was a quiet, modest tomboy with a powerful brain and a mind like a room full of computers.
They were best friends and together they sorted out many vile villains, ghastly ghouls, goony ghosts, spooky spectres, creepy creatures and famous fiends. And they did this while visiting sinister spots such as haunted houses, creepy castles, terrifying theatres, ghostly graveyards, mysterious museums and moonlit mansions. Invariably, after many minor and not-so-minor scares, they came out on top and lived to fight another day.
Glenn Dakin presents a fun-filled compendium of their lives and careers, complete with their little peccadilloes, such as Scooby being scared of his own shadow, Shaggy's penchant for running away, Fred wanting to grow up to be a famous writer, danger-prone Daphne's nasty habit of, when faced with three doors (that was in our game that we played), she always opened the one with the spooky ghost or headless zombie lurking within and Velma's terrible habit of always losing her glasses.
The book makes for credible reading, so much so that at its end one nearly begins to believe these members of Mystery Inc. are real - well, this gullible reader did anyway!
I came to know Scooby-Doo when my daughter was young and we watched it together on television and then had a Scooby-Doo mystery game which we played regularly. I quickly began to fall in love with the Great Dane (even though I am really a cat person).
Of his companions, Shaggy was really a scaredy-cat who would rather eat pizzas than solve mysteries, and Fred Jones was a clean-cut handsome hero who not only solved mysteries but invented crazy traps to catch ghosts (for many such entered the world of Scooby-Doo!). Daphne was an attractive cool redhead who loved a good mystery and was unofficially second in command of Mystery Inc. while Velma was a quiet, modest tomboy with a powerful brain and a mind like a room full of computers.
They were best friends and together they sorted out many vile villains, ghastly ghouls, goony ghosts, spooky spectres, creepy creatures and famous fiends. And they did this while visiting sinister spots such as haunted houses, creepy castles, terrifying theatres, ghostly graveyards, mysterious museums and moonlit mansions. Invariably, after many minor and not-so-minor scares, they came out on top and lived to fight another day.
Glenn Dakin presents a fun-filled compendium of their lives and careers, complete with their little peccadilloes, such as Scooby being scared of his own shadow, Shaggy's penchant for running away, Fred wanting to grow up to be a famous writer, danger-prone Daphne's nasty habit of, when faced with three doors (that was in our game that we played), she always opened the one with the spooky ghost or headless zombie lurking within and Velma's terrible habit of always losing her glasses.
The book makes for credible reading, so much so that at its end one nearly begins to believe these members of Mystery Inc. are real - well, this gullible reader did anyway!
April 20, 2023
This book was an absolute favourite of mine as a child (mostly because it resulted in the custom top trump cards that my sister made for me). Even though the book is very outdated now, it still brings a smile to my face.
July 18, 2009
I've successfully transferred my love for the Scooby Doo mysteries to our girls, so it's not too unusual to find a Scooby Doo movie on the tv on a weekend morning. This book is a good "guide" to all-things Scooby Doo, while still serving as a bit of an advertisement for the second live-action Scooby Doo movie. It's got all the characters, the creepy monsters, and the mysteries solved. It describes all the masks, tricks, and conniving plots that those "meddling kids" have foiled. It's not necessarily a book that you'd sit down and read all at once, but we had fun exploring the pages over the span of a couple of days.
September 2, 2015
It's like an encyclopedia of the Scooby Doo world. The kids (mid elementary school) love it
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