How to Build a Haunted House

K-Gr 2–Ever wonder where monsters live? A new family of “down on their luck” vampires waits to move into a quiet neighborhood in Ghost Town. Their house must be finished from dusk to dawn—in just one night. A community bulletin board sets up the tale with a desperate request for a house, and digital media frames cartoon images within a busy and boldly dark construction landscape as “Ghost Town wakes from daylight snores.” Rhyming text, a nod to literature and film, and playful words emphasized by specific fonts describe the frenzied activities of Frankenstein and his Bride, the Mummy, Cyclops, the Invisible Man, and a collection of werewolves, witches, skeletons, and ghosts—all working together to build a house worthy of the new residents. Light dawns with an inferred ending appropriate to the horror genre.