Book Description
Beware! Only those who are McFearlessly brave may read from the pages of these monstrous memoirs. Crack open the “creature-skin” cover—if you dare—and enter the monsterminating world of 11-year-old Minerva McFearless, her brother Max, and their mysterious coyote friend, Mr. Devilstone, as they battle the evil army of the king of all monsters—the dreaded Zarmaglorg! This one-of-a-kind novel features full-color illustrations throughout and offers “scientific” data on all the terrifying things that go bump in the night, as well as recipes for keeping the bloodthirsty beasts at bay. First-time author Ahmet Zappa delivers a horrifying and hysterical tale that will be sure to bewitch readers of all ages. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (13)

Great for my 10 year old...
I heard about this book in a magazine and thought it sounded like a really neat story.My 10 year old opened it Christmas morning and started reading.Leaving a few other things unopened.It seemed to hook him in straight away.

I gave four because I have not read it yet.That and I think my son already loaned it out to friends.:)So, based on him, and the pile he left unopened, it must be a good book...

Delicious reading
A book choice for children to read for clever and creative writing stills that use advance descriptive language that is so very engaging. An excellent choice t to interest children with authors.

Great Book! For all readers
I thought this was a great, fun, funny book especially for my 10 year old boy. We both loved it-we listened to it on CD. The music was great and especially the final song- "So you want to be McFearless." We both laughed out loud thoughtout, and I loved the recipes. I would think anyone who loved Harry Potter would like this book. Monsters, magic, legends, and kids discovering who they are- what fun. I look forward to new books by this fun author to share with my kids.

disappointing
I purchased this book after reading about the author in Reader's Digest.I have an 8 yr old grandson with a reading problem and hoped that this book, having been written by a man who also had this reading disability as a child, would have produced something to help him.
The book was riddled with adjectives that would confuse an English professor, certainly did an 8 yr old struggling through them to make some sense of the story.

Nowhere in the description of this book did it suggest an age range, which would have helped.

I have returned the book.

You love it or hate it, I guess!
I read Zappa's book to my fifth grade class while using my document camera to project the pages onto a screen so they could also enjoy the doodles and artwork throughout the book.The kids adored this book and as soon as we finished it, begged me to see if he had written a sequel...please say there will be one!The names were tongue twisters, that's for sure, but very funny...kids love it when a teacher has to say "Doominstinkinfart".I was impressed by this book - loved the Harry Potter books - loved this one!I use some of the passages to teach my writing classes. ... Read more