Read It Before You Watch It: A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting Arrives This Week
Debi Moore
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It’s been over two years since the film rights to Joe Ballarini’s A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting were acquired by The Montecito Picture Company and Walden Films, but now finally this week you’ll be able to get your hands on the printed version courtesy of HarperCollins imprint Katherine Tegen Books. It’s a hilarious new series about a secret society of babysitters who protect kids from the monsters that really do live under their beds.
It arrives June 20th; and sure, it’s geared toward the younger set, but A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting sounds like the perfect gateway to the harder stuff. Plus, who doesn’t have a bit of nostalgia for the simpler times when we first discovered our love of the genre through the written word of Goosebumps and the like? If it sounds up your alley, you can pre-order your copy now from Amazon.
From the Press Release:
It’s not every day you learn that monsters are real…
In A BABYSITTER’S GUIDE TO MONSTER HUNTING, the first in a thrilling and hilarious new series by professional screenwriter Joe Ballarini, they are not only real; they are planning to populate the world with monsters from little kids’ nightmares. The Montecito Picture Company and Walden Films are producing the film adaptation, written by Ballarini and starring Keegan Michael Key.
When middle schooler Kelly Ferguson’s Halloween plans switch from party-going to babysitting, she thinks the scariest part of her night will be the death of her social life. She’s not babysitter material—doesn’t like little kids and thinks it’s a job for nerds—but she needs cash if she wants to go to summer camp; and she wants to go to summer camp, bad. But when her first charge, four-year-old Baby Jacob, gets carried off by monsters—who really do live under his bed!—to the Grand Guignol (also known as the Boogeyman), she learns there’s a whole lot more to fear than temper-tantrums. Like chasing shadow monsters, drop-kicking Toadies, and mastering monster-fighting moves like the Naptime Headlock and Playground Punch.
Now, with the help of an ancient handbook and a secret society of butt-kicking babysitters, Kelly sets out to destroy the Boogeyman before he brings Jacob’s nightmares to life. But when the monsters’ trail leads to her school’s big Halloween bash, Kelly will have to prove she can save the world—without totally embarrassing herself in front of her friends.
Packed with black-and-white illustrations by Vivienne To and insider secrets from the world of monster hunting, A BABYSITTER’S GUIDE TO MONSTER HUNTING is full of tricks, treats, and terrifying twists!
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