Secret of Dripping Fang, Book One, The Onts: By Dan Greenburg

This was a fun book! The Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book One, and The Onts is a great book for any eight year old who is learning to read. The book is short, moves quickly and has some really funny parts. The writing is not that difficult and the book is short enough for kids who have just started to take an interest in chapter books to want to continue reading. However, I do not know that I would recommend it for adults who read children’s books, because unlike some children’s book series, this is clearly written for a much younger audience. But, it would be a great book to have your child read to you because it is funny, the characters are unusual, and the story moves along quickly.

The Onts is the first in The Dripping Fang series and it is about two orphan twins named Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin who live in the Jolly Days Orphanage. No one wants to adopt Wally or Cheyenne because Wally has very stinky feet and Cheyenne is allergic to absolutely everything. So, when the Mandible sisters, a pair of old maids, show up at the Jolly Time Orphanage and want to adopt the twins, they cannot help but be suspicious!

Weirder still is that the sisters live in Dripping Fang Forrest, where zombies and glowing slugs call home and want to make the Shluffmuffin twins their very next meal. Prepare to be afraid, laugh out loud and enjoy these unique twins, the characters they meet on their travels, and most of all, their adventures in the Secrets of Dripping Fang Series.

This book was very affordable and the illustrations, which were done by Scott M. Fisher, were incredible! Fisher really brings to life the characters in this book, which I always enjoy, especially when how I imagine a character looks is almost exactly like the illustration. I think any kid who likes silly, outrageous, and sometimes bizarre books would enjoy this series.