Night of the Werepoodle

Hiser, Constance

ISBN 10: 0823411168 / ISBN 13: 9780823411160

Published by Holiday House, 1994

About this Item

A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's dust jacket design. Signed by author with dedication at title page. NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 14.95], clean, crisp, colors bright, minor display indications. Illustrated throughout with B&W art reproductions. Aqua blue boards, clean, blind stamping, yellow cloth spine, navy lettering. Having been turned into a werepoodle by the bite of his neighbor's dog, Jonathan must find a missing wolfbane chewbone or be doomed to remain a beast forever. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Night of the Werepoodle
• Publisher: Holiday House
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823411168
• ISBN 13: 9780823411160
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Fisher, Cynthia
• Edition: Stated First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed By Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's Books
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Jonathan, the new kid in town, is bitten accidentally by mailman-turned-werepoodle Charlemagne and must wrest the magic doggy bone from vicious Big Al in time to prevent his transformation. By the author of The Missing Doll.

Reviews

Grade 3-5-Every day Vince, the class bully, forces Jonathan, the new kid on the block, to give him his lunch money. On top of that, Jonathan is bitten by Charlemagne, his neighbor's poodle. He begins to feel strange, and finally realizes that he turns into a werepoodle at night. He must gnaw on a wolfbane chewbone that is in the clutches of a mean dog in order to become a normal human again. In the end, Vince, too, becomes a werepoodle, but Jonathan saves him, and they become friends. This book is an easy read, but the plot is predictable. The dialogue is forced, and character development is slight. The exciting climactic scene, in which Jonathan, Charlemagne, and Vince's dog sneak into the grocery store, steal a steak, and barter it for the magical chewbone, saves the book from total mediocrity. Hiser's mild tale, illustrated with occasional full-page, black-and-white pictures, is for readers who enjoy short chapter books. It will certainly not cause nightmares.
April L. Judge, formerly at Jefferson Madison Regional Library, Charlottesville, VA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Gr. 2-4. Fourth-grader Jonathan has enough troubles--a new school, a bully who steals his lunch money--before his neighbor's poodle bites him and he begins turning into a werepoodle. The neighbor, who turns out to be a magician, and the poodle (a former mailman) help Jonathan find the wolfbane dog chew that will return him to his furless boyhood. After a canine raid on the supermarket meat counter, Jonathan is finally cured--and the school bully is on his way to poodlehood. Not as funny as James Howe's fiction, but funny and fast enough to reward struggling readers looking for a good story in short-chapter bursts. Mary Harris Veeder