Homeschool Friday - The Spooky Sound

Homeschool Friday is a feature here at Somewhere Only We Know that showcases books my family reads during homeschool and provides a mini-review for each.

The Spooky Sound (Disney/Pixar Cars)

By: Melissa Lagonegro

Illustrated By: Ron Cohee

Publication: July 13, 2010 by RH/Disney

32 pages

Genre: Children's, Picture Books, Level-2, Early Readers

Source: Personal Library

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Goodreads description--CAfter Mater and Lightning McQueen hear a mysterious sound one night, they decide to investigate. But when they can't figure out where it's coming from, Radiator Springs suddenly becomes very spooky!

Disney•Pixar's Cars fans will love this all-new Step 2 reader featuring all of their favorite characters.

The Spooky Sound is one of our Level-2 readers. This one was given to us and not one that I bought. Lightning McQueen and Mater like telling scary stories. But they aren't scared. Yet they are. They see a variety of spooky shadows and shapes on their way home. But then each of these scary things is revealed to be something not scary at all. I liked the play on how often the things we get worked up and scared about, especially as a kid, all have unscary truths behind them. However, sometimes just telling scary stories can get us scared over nothing. The yo-yo of not scared, scared, not scared, scared was actually funny for my level-2 reader.

My son read this book with a little less reluctance than some other books. I don't think there were any words he struggled with. He wanted to see what each of the spooky things Lightning and Mater were afraid of actually were. The Spooky Sound gets 4 Stars. Have you or your child read The Spooky Sound? What did you think? Let me know!