Scooby-Doo! In Jungle Jeopardy

By Jesse Leon McCann

Book Overview

While Scooby and the gang are exploring the jungle, they cross paths with a crazed half-man, half-beast, who warns them to stay away. Scooby-Doo.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439260752
• ISBN13: 9780439260756
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A fun book

My three-year-old son loves Scooby Doo cartoons and I was pleased to find books related to the series that work well as books.It's a standard Scooby Doo plot: the kids go to visit one of Daphne's teachers, Professor Peabody, who is on an archeology dig in Central America. He is searching for a lost Mayan pyramid, and when the gang starts getting close ferocious cat creatures try to chase them away. I'll let you guess the ending. *smile*Things I like about this book include the following: a relatively high number of words per page (in other words, there is a lot of reading to be done in addition to looking at the pictures); real places and civilizations are used in the book (it really talks about the Mayans in Central America); and a couple of facts about bats are thrown in as part of the plot (vampire bats go after some fruit instead of Shaggy and Scoob). In addition, the bold pictures run right to the edge of the pages, making the book very attractive. The things I don't really care for in this book are rather minor: the type is in an unusual font (which poses no problems while I'm reading the book to my son, but which may cause problems for beginning readers) and Shaggy's and Scooby's speech patterns are captured in print (like, Shaggy starts a lot of sentences with "like" and Scooby starts almost all of his words with "r").All in all, this may not be great literature, but it's a very fun book that my son requests quite often. It's great to bridge the gap between TV and reading.