SVK #42: Jessica's Monster Nightmare

[daphne_23]

 I’m still waiting for SVH #140, Please Forgive Me, to arrive from the library, so thought in the meantime I would do a quick recap of one of the two Sweet Valley Kids titles I own...

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[melody_powers]

Great recap! I loved the psychological theories about Jess. :)

Jess (rather sweetly) lists all the crayon colours she likes best in an attempt not to fall asleep. For those that are interested: they are carnation, magenta, aquamarine, apricot and sky.

Aha! And we see the origin of the name of Jessica's rock star alter ego!

[timeofnoreply]

but then, I did use to be so frightened of the Quentin Blake illustration of the Grand High Witch sans mask in Roald Dahl’s The Witches that I had to skip that page every time, so perhaps I am not the best person to judge. Anyway, the class agree it’s fairly frightening and stop teasing Jess.

Oh man, you too?

I'm even lamer. I used to be afraid of the sunken ships on my Little Mermaid blanket.

[melody_powers]

I'm glad I'm not the only wimp! I'm still afraid of the "Gremlins" movies. Shudder.

:)

[daniellafromage]

I still can't watch E.T.! That little alien scares me half to death. D:

[ames1506]

I completely second this, and used to skip the page as well. The notion of the painting featuring the missing girl also caused much distress.

Other things that scared me as a child included a scene in Raymond Briggs' book 'Father Christmas Goes on Holiday (Big FC gets trolleyed in Vegas and has a nightmare involving a vomiting cow); and a picture of a diseased gum in my mum's Miriam Stoppard health book. I claim the lame crown!

[snowe]

I like your analysis of the monster! *giggles*

[daniellafromage]

The picture of the horses that the twins have in their bedrooms is terrifying.

I want it.

‘A picture of the ocean, with whales and dolphins.’ I can see Todd drooling already.

Ha!

[gojl5567]

I assume this was when Todd decided he cared about whales.

[katranna]

Has not the ghostwriter read the original Grimms’ fairy-tales? They’re full of people getting their toes and fingers cut off (and that’s in the Cinderella story, Ashputtel) and dancing on red-hot coals and being pursued by Death… Wonderful parenting, Ned, as ever.

All the more reason for kids to read them, I think. I hate watered-down American kids stories. HATE. :-)