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Dying to meet you

by Klise, Kate.

Format: Print Book 2009
Availability: Available at 11 Libraries 11 of 14 copies

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Summary

Ignatius B. Grumply moves into the Victorian mansion at 43 Old Cemetery Road hoping to find some peace and quiet so he can crack a wicked case of writer's block. But 43 Old Cemetery Road is already occupied by eleven-year-old Seymour, his cat Shadow, and an irritable ghost named Olive. It's hard to say who is more outraged. But a grumpy old ghost just might inspire this grumpy old man--and the abandoned kid? Well, let's just say his last name's Hope.

Sisters Kate and M. Sarah Klise, the creators of the award-winning Regarding the . . . series, offer up this volume in a clever epistolary series told in letters, drawings, newspaper articles, a work-in-progress manuscript, and even an occasional tombstone engraving.

Published Reviews
Booklist Review: "This epistolary graphic mystery may take genre-bending into the realm of genre-pretzeling, but it still delivers an unlikely story with a great deal of likability. The famed children's author (who despises kids, naturally) Ignatius B. Grumply moves into an old Victorian mansion to finish his latest book. Turns out a young boy abandoned by his parents lives upstairs, and a ghost named Olive lives in the cupola, making for an uncomfortably full house. The entire interaction between the three (and a handful of supporting cast members) takes place in their written communiques, a conceit that falls apart under close scrutiny but if taken at face value allows for a surprisingly jaunty read. Given that a bulk of the physical space is taken up by letterheads, this thin book can be read in a flash, and even though it is the first in the 43 Old Cemetery Road series, it stands on its own and features a touching conclusion. Maps of the house, portraits of the characters, and the boy's drawings add a nice layer to the mildly self-referential whole.--Chipman, Ian Copyright 2009 Booklist"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Publisher's Weekly Review: "This fresh, funny launch of the 43 Old Cemetery Road series introduces an eccentric cast with pun-tastic names. I.B. Grumply, a cranky children's book author with writer's block, rents a dilapidated Victorian mansion (from realtor Anita Sale) in the town of Ghastly in hopes of writing an addition to his Ghost Tamers series (publisher: Paige Turner). He discovers that the owners have left their son Seymour behind while-in one of several ironic twists-they tour Europe debunking the existence of ghosts. Seymour does indeed "see more" than others: he has befriended Olive C. Spence, a feisty ghost who has vowed to haunt the house until she accomplishes what she couldn't in life-publish a book. As in the "Regarding the..." series, written by these sibling collaborators, the story unfolds through characters' correspondence ("The man is impossible! I should've dropped THREE chandeliers on his head," Olive writes Seymour about Grumply) as well as other documents, including illustrated pages from the local tabloid. Despite a slightly sappy denouement, the story is light enough for more tentative readers, with many humorous details to reward those who look closer. Ages 8-12. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information
Series Klise, Kate. 43 Old Cemetery Road ; bk. 1.
#1 - Dying to meet you
#2 - Over my dead body
#3 - Till death do us bark
#4 - The Phantom of the Post Office
#5 - Hollywood, dead ahead
#6 - Greetings from the graveyard
#7 - The Loch Ness punster
Subjects Authors -- Juvenile fiction.
Authorship -- Juvenile fiction.
Dwellings -- Juvenile fiction.
Haunted houses -- Juvenile fiction.
Ghost stories.
Letters -- Juvenile fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Authorship -- Fiction.
Dwellings -- Fiction.
Haunted houses -- Fiction.
Ghosts -- Fiction.
Letters -- Fiction.
Humorous stories.
Publisher Boston :Harcourt,2009
Edition 1st ed.
Contributors Klise, M. Sarah.
Language English
Description 147 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
ISBN 0152057277 (reinforced)
9780152057275 (reinforced)
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