In Miss Smith and the Haunted Library, Miss Smith takes her class on a field trip to the spooky library--strange things happen. At the library the class meets librarian, Virginia Creeper, who has purple hair, pale skin and high pitched squeaky voice. The class sits down to listen to a few scary tales, and the characters jump out of the book and come to life --- literally. There is a Headless Horseman, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Captain Hook, and the Wicked Witch of the W...

An adorable picture book! I love the illustration and the use of classical creatures. Can't get over the reference sheet in the back telling you what creatures are from what stories. Makes me want to get our my copy of Brothers Grimm and read classics I haven't read too.

This is just another librarian book with the theme of Jumanji but for books instead of a board game. Mrs. Smith actually looks like Mr. Smith. The children are drawn horribly, they are creepy looking.

Booklist July 2009 (Online)Grades 1-3. Garland recycles the plot of Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook (2003) but adds some new faces. The leather-jacketed teacher lends her magical storybook to librarian Virginia Creeper, and, as before, all sorts of recognizable characters literally leap up from the pages as the class looks on in glee. The literary cast, ranging from the Headless Horseman to the Hound of the Baskervilles, party in the library until the senior citizens’ book club shows up, where...

I read this as the featured book during the Halloween Kids' Storytime at my library, along with giving treat bags, serving cider, costume judging, and prizes. The 17 kids and a dozen adults who packed the library in my town with a total population of 128 really seemed to enjoy it! I had it prominently on display, and they were looking forward to having this book read to them. The book made for a wonderful library program!

Characters come to life in books and in libraries!

Eh, not my favorite children's library story...but not too bad. I liked how the book characters became less scary when they came out of the storybook as "ghosts," but I was unsettled by the assumption portayed in the story that the approaching senior citizen book clubbers would be unsettled by the book character "ghosts."

This was cute. Apparently the teacher has a magic book and while you are reading it the characters jump out of the book. To get them back in the book, you have to finish the story. I enjoyed all the different characters from other stories coming to life. Also the grumpy seniors coming for their book club was funny. At the end of the book you find a list of the books the characters came from. The art was good and unique. I would recommend this for ages 6 to 10 😊

This is a cute story about Miss Smith reading a story to her students. While she is reading the story, the characters seem to come alive to the students. This is a cute book that shows that Halloween can be celebrated by different cultures.

This was a cute story with wonderful pictures. The kids in Miss Smith's class go to the library. The librarian that is a little scary reads from a book. As she reads all the classic scary characters come out of the book in the library. A vivid depiction of stories coming to life when you read.

Cute book about Halloween mayhem in the library. As Virginia Creeper, librarian, reads to her student visitors, the "creepy guys" of the stories she's reading begin to appear. Once all the monsters are out and about in the library, they begin to have a party. BUT, Ms. Creeper notices the senior book club approaching the library stairs, so she tells the students that they must put the mayhem away because it would "give the seniors such a fright." The kids lead the monsters back into their books b...

I saw this on goodreads while looking up halloween books, and I almost passed it up, but I decided to hit want to read anyway. My library had it, so I thought I'd read it. I was going to read this yesterday, and save the better-looking books I checked out closer to halloween, but as I picked it up and looked at it, I thought it would be a nice adventure book, and I like the idea of a library adventure, so I decided to save it for today. I didn’t like the animation; it looks like modern animated

I enjoyed reading this to my little brother :)

This is a wonderful story that brings scary creatures alive (somewhat akin the the Time Warp Trio story, Summer Reading is Killing Me! but in a less scary way). The class goes to the library for storytime and the librarian, Ms. Creeper, introduces some of her favorite scary creatures from Miss Smith's "Incredible Storybook." Thirteen books are also listed, the original tales from whence these creatures came. This a great story to read aloud and is perfect for Halloween.

Reading Level: Grades 2-4Miss Smith takes her class to the public library and they ask for suggestions for spooky stories. As Virginia Creeper, the librarian begins reading from "The Incredible Storybook", the characters pop right out of the story and join the children - including the Headless Horseman, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Captain Hook, Wicked Witch of the West,etc....The skeptical children have a party with these characters before it is time to return them to the book and check out their o...

Zack's teacher Miss Smith has takes the class on a trip to the library. The librarian Virginia Creeper reads to them from the Incredible Storybook. As she reads the spooky stories the characters and creatures come to life and invade the library! This is a nice large book with very bright detailed illustrations. Michael Garland's book is a great read-a-loud for 2nd to 3rd graders especially at Halloween.

Miss Smith has a book called the incredible Storybook. I think this is why Zack loves Miss Smith best. They take a field trip to the local library as I suppose their school doesn't have a library, which would be sad. As they are reading from the scary stories in the book for fall, all the strange characters jump out of the book. My nephew would love this. He is always saying "I was this character was real real" His latest obsession is Frankenberry and he wishes he could hang out with Frankenberr...

When Miss Smith takes the Incredible Storybook with the class to the library (which looks like a haunted house) one dreary fall day, you know something wild and wonderful is going to happen, and it does. Unfortunately, this book is fairly predictable if you've read the other 2 Incredible Storybook stories. So for me, the story was kind of dull. However, I loved the librarian, Virginia Creeper, and the illustrations, colorful and filled with interesting details. I liked the humorous touch of the

Michael Garland, Miss Smith and the Haunted Library (Dutton, 2009)Perhaps I've just missed it over the years, but I'm seeing a trend in childrens' books that I don't think was there before: the conceit of book characters coming to life when they're read about in books. I know this is at least the third time I've seen it in the last year. Maybe it's a function of my expectations (which were much lower with the others than they were here), but this was the least effective of the three. In this one...

I didn’t like the animation. It was that new-school style that I’m not a fan of. All of the people looked weird with tiny, beady eyes that were spaced really far apart. Their noses were ugly, just these circles and ovals appearing out of nowhere with no bridge, just flat skin right above it. I did like the artwork on the wall, the picture of a ghost, witch, pumpkin and other things. They looked great and I wish all of the animal looked like those artworks. I liked the touch of Little Women out o...