Night of the gargoyles
The book is about the life of gargoyles. They stay up on the building during the day but at night they leave from off the building to be free in the night air. They window shop, fly up to the stars and even hand out with other gargoyles. They complain about the things they go threw during the day. Hot sun raises, rain and the birds are the worst for them. But after a night of fun they retire back to there buildings awaiting the night to return again.

I thought this would be a good story being so close to Halloween. But the kids didn’t like it. I guess most of born in Oklahoma probably have never seen a gargoyle that hand off of buildings. It was just a book to them. They listened but not much discussion on this book.

I only did one activity with them because I didn’t really want to draw it out. I brought pictures of my trip down to San Antonio, when my family and I went on the river boat ride. There where gargoyles on the building. They looked but they didn’t really get excited. Then we did a coloring sheet. ( )

I read this book because I was looking for a Halloween book to read to students. I found this a bit too scary for the age group I was going to read to, but it was a hard decision not to read it. I loved the colorful language, metaphors and illustrations. ( )

This book is about gargoyles that come to life at night. Even though this is a picture book with not a lot of words, I wouldn't recommend this book to younger students. It could be somewhat scary and it also has some harder vocabulary that they wouldn't know. If you wanted to introduce the new vocabulary to the students before you read, then it would be more appropriate for younger students. The pictures are black and white and very interesting. ( )

GRL P,GL 5.9,AR 4.1,4 copies

GRL P,GL 5.9,AR 4.1,4 copies