Bumps in the night Book

Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard is a book with some scary suspense in it. In the book, when the clock strikes at twelve there are thumps everywhere. The drawings are interesting the author used. There are quick and funny ghost stories written for beginning to read children as a first chapter book. This book contains a lot of surprises and mysterious events. I would give this book a four star rating because I thought it was a good children's book, but I didn't think it was anything amazing.

This book is censored/challenged because of the description of families in a derogatory manner. Allard also used a lot of encouraging disrespectful language and disobedience to parents which is not appropriate for elementary students. I don't think this book had a good message in it. Allard tried to keep the book cute with the illustrations but children don't understand the message behind it. I agree with the book being censored because of these reasons. This book is meant for ages six and older.

My opinion and usage of teaching this in the classroom setting would be the book should be banned because of the language and non-appropriate ideas it teaches to children at a young age. There is too much variety of supernatural issues going on in the book which should not be taught in the classroom. I would not feel ok with teaching a book that is on the top 100 banned children's books in the classroom.