{"id":4480,"date":"2016-05-15T13:43:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T17:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2016-05-15T13:43:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T17:43:22","slug":"book-review-the-monsters-of-morley-manor-by-bruce-coville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-the-monsters-of-morley-manor-by-bruce-coville\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Monsters of Morley Manor by Bruce Coville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Monsters-Morley-Manor-Madcap-Adventure\/dp\/0152047050\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1463333446&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=monsters+of+morley+manor&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=monstlibra0f1-20&amp;linkId=17e096d078e0a9135fbf0506642226b4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0152047050&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=monstlibra0f1-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=monstlibra0f1-20&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=0152047050\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1WyLNJV\" target=\"_blank\">The Monsters of Morley Manor<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>by Bruce Coville<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Magic Carpet Books, 2003 (reprint edition)<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-0152047054<br \/>\nAvailable: New and Used\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <i>The Monsters of Morley Manor<\/i> isn&#8217;t as much of a scary book as an adventure book with monster characters in it.\u00a0 In the book, Anthony and his little sister Sarah buy a box filled with five miniature monster figures: a lizard man, a medusa, a wolfman, a vampiress, and a hunchback. When one of the figures gets wet. it starts to come alive, and thus begins an adventure involving aliens, giant talking frogs, and ghosts.\u00a0 Coville fits a lot into this book and while it works just fine, it seems like it would have been possible for him to have a book just with the five monsters and without the alien story line.\u00a0 A good book for monster loving kids.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ages 9-12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Dylan Kowalewski<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note:\u00a0<\/em>This review first appeared on our main site in 2006. I very much still recommend it for monster-loving kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monsters of Morley Manor\u00a0by Bruce Coville Magic Carpet Books, 2003 (reprint edition) ISBN-13: 978-0152047054 Available: New and Used\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Monsters of Morley Manor isn&#8217;t as much of a scary book as an adventure book with monster characters in it.\u00a0 In the book, Anthony and his little sister Sarah buy a box filled with<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-the-monsters-of-morley-manor-by-bruce-coville\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2474,2730,2212,1186,1217,2731],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-review","tag-bruce-coville","tag-childrens-fiction","tag-childrens-horror","tag-scary-books-for-kids","tag-the-monsters-of-morley-manor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4483,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions\/4483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}