Algernon Graeves Is Scary Enough
Peter Bollinger, . . HarperCollins/ Geringer, $14.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-06-052268-1
Up in a cobweb-free attic with shadowy but airbrush-smooth roofbeams, pale Algernon Graeves tries on a cape and other accessories in search of a gruesome disguise. Myth Men illustrator Bollinger limns disconcerting, ethereal close-ups of a pointy-toothed vampire, a snarling werewolf and a zombie with torn flesh from Algernon's active imagination. The boy, meanwhile, poses before a mirror and attempts to duplicate these heavy-metal grotesqueries himself; the not-so-ominous results counterbalance the horror-movie frights. As in
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Reviewed on: 08/01/2005
Genre: Children's