Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots (Two Stars)

Children's fiction
Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots
The Bailey School Kids #1
Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones
Scholastic
©1990
0-590-43411-X
78 pages
$3.50 US/$4.50 CAN

"There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new third grade teacher from the Transylvanian Alps really be a vampire? The Bailey School kids are going to find out!
"The third grade at Bailey Elementary was very hard to handle. Most teachers quit – and moved far away – after trying to teach them.
"But Mrs. Jeepers was different. No one ever dared make her mad – because whenever they did, the strangest things would happen…."

I picked this one to read because Transylvania was mentioned. It actually irks me a little that all story-book vampires have to be from Romania. Well, I’ll try not to go off on a diatribe about that.

I wasn’t actually all too impressed with this book. The character development was fine but the story development was a little pedantic and predictable. What bothered me most was the lack of story resolution at the end. I felt as if the writers had written themselves into a corner and didn’t know how to get out, so they just ended the book.

I’m going to try another in the Bailey School Kids series, just to see if the same thing happens.