"
Coraline meets Monsters, Inc. in this delightfully entertaining offering from actor [Jason] Segel and co-author [Kirsten] Miller."--
Publishers Weekly The hilariously frightening, middle-grade novel
Nightmares! is a
Texas Bluebonnet nominee and the first book in a trilogy about a boy named Charlie and a group of kids who must face their fears to save their town.
Charlie Laird has several problems.
1. His dad married a woman he is sure moonlights as a witch.
2. He had to move into her purple mansion--the creepiest place in Cypress Creek.
3. He can't remember the last time sleeping wasn't a nightmarish prospect. Like even a nap.
What Charlie doesn't know is that his problems are about to get a whole lot more real. Nightmares can ruin a good night's sleep, but when they start slipping out of your dreams and into the waking world . . . well, that's something only Charlie can face. And he's going to need all the help he can get, or it might just be lights-out for Charlie Laird.
For good.
Praise for the Nightmares! Series: Nightmares! (Bk 1) is a Texas Bluebonnet Nominee "Charlie Laird, who learns fear will eat you alive if you feed it, makes an impression, and...
readers will want to accompany him again."--
The New York Times Book Review "
A touching comical saga...about facing things that go bump in the night."--
US Weekly "Comical antics, cartoonish spot illustrations, and creepy villains make for quite
an entertaining read."--
Booklist "Succeeds at scaring and amusing in equal measure . . .
Sweet, charming, and imaginative."--
Kirkus Reviews "
An engaging and creative story...woven with a generous amount [of] humor."--
VOYA "There's
humor and a fairly high ick-factor."--
School Library Journal "
Cleverly crafted...This novel presents just the right mix of 'scary and humorous.'"--
ILA Literacy Daily