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A review by pwbalto
The School Is Alive! by Jack Chabert
3.0
Gr 1-3 -- Who wants to be the Hall Monitor at a school called Eerie Elementary? Not Sam Graves, that’s for sure. He’s a little embarrassed at the shiny orange sash he has to wear as he patrols the halls, but when the playground sand tries to eat him and the school caretaker Mr. Nakobi tells him that it’s Sam’s job to keep the malevolent brick building in check, Sam can’t tell whether Mr. Nakobi is crazy - or he is.
Dynamic, cartoony illustrations underline the action and fun onomatopoiea provides atmosphere - Pow! Pow! - a vending machine fires water bottles at Sam, while CHOMP! CHOMP! a pile of metal folding chairs menaces the third grade cast of Peter Pan.
Readers who relish the action of Ricky Ricotta and the just-beyond-safe scares of R.L. Stine’s Rotten School may want to enroll at Eerie Elementary. Sam’s friends Antonio and Lucy are by his side (once he convinces them he hasn’t lost his mind), but a sentient, evil school is not a peril to be taken lightly.
—Paula Willey for Booklist Online
Dynamic, cartoony illustrations underline the action and fun onomatopoiea provides atmosphere - Pow! Pow! - a vending machine fires water bottles at Sam, while CHOMP! CHOMP! a pile of metal folding chairs menaces the third grade cast of Peter Pan.
Readers who relish the action of Ricky Ricotta and the just-beyond-safe scares of R.L. Stine’s Rotten School may want to enroll at Eerie Elementary. Sam’s friends Antonio and Lucy are by his side (once he convinces them he hasn’t lost his mind), but a sentient, evil school is not a peril to be taken lightly.
—Paula Willey for Booklist Online