{"id":22110,"date":"2013-10-31T09:44:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=22110"},"modified":"2014-05-04T17:42:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T17:42:01","slug":"upside-down-a-vampire-tale-by-jess-smart-smiley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/upside-down-a-vampire-tale-by-jess-smart-smiley\/","title":{"rendered":"Upside Down: A Vampire Tale by Jess Smart Smiley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/04\/Upside-Down.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25535\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/04\/Upside-Down.jpg\" alt=\"Upside Down\" width=\"522\" height=\"664\" \/><\/a>Since I temporarily seem to find myself in Utah\u00a0\u2013\u00a0although I admit it&#8217;s not quite as frightening here as I thought it might be, ahem!\u00a0\u2013\u00a0I figured\u00a0this spookfest\u00a0would not be complete without a Utahn Halloween manga, right?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jesssmartsmiley.wordpress.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jess Smart Smiley<\/a>, who &#8220;lives in the bewitching mountains of Utah,&#8221; according to his back flap author bio, &#8220;ma[de] rad pictures with his bare hands&#8221; to create this 2012 graphic novel debut (a case of &#8216;better late than never&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>Meet vampire Harold: his darling \u2013\u00a0I mean, scary! \u2013\u00a0mug haunts the novel&#8217;s cover. He&#8217;s got quite the candy addiction that causes him to lose his cavity-riddled fangs on the dentist&#8217;s tray. Without\u00a0his sparkling bite, he&#8217;s too ashamed to go home to his parents, who happen to live in Professor Adams&#8217; piano, so he decides he might as well hang (upside down) with the neighborhood bats.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, mean-witch Vermillion mistakenly dissolves the rest of her kind, but figures she can live forever if she can just get to Professor Adams&#8217; latest elixir. But thanks to Harold, his batty buddies, flying toads, and wads of used gum, the world is made safe once more &#8230; and dear Professor Adams even finds his spellbound soulmate.<\/p>\n<p>For younger readers (and parents) in search of some non-cavity-inducing fun, <em>Upside Down\u00a0<\/em>is a sweet, goofy treat to share, in between a limited few lollipops and chocolates. Dr. Eaves, of course, will be waiting with pliers for those who overindulge!<\/p>\n<p>Smiley&#8217;s (gotta grin at that fitting name!) charming graphics are made whimsically more &#8220;rad,&#8221; presented \u00a0in &#8220;black, white and Halloween green.&#8221; That&#8217;s right\u00a0\u2013 not a smidge of pumpkin orange in sight (except for a tiny bit of t-shirt on\u00a0an adorable monster\u00a0who shares Smiley&#8217;s author photo)! Oh, these Utahns\u00a0are just so renegade!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I temporarily seem to find myself in Utah\u00a0\u2013\u00a0although I admit it&#8217;s not quite as frightening here as I thought it might be, ahem!\u00a0\u2013\u00a0I figured\u00a0this spookfest\u00a0would not be complete without a Utahn Halloween manga, right?\u00a0Jess Smart Smiley, who &#8220;lives in the bewitching mountains of Utah,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,6,73,30,60],"tags":[32,6608,516,51,885,160,13,64,886],"class_list":["post-22110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-picture-books","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-middle-grade-readers","category-nonethnic-specific","tag-adventure","tag-bookdragon","tag-holidays","tag-identity","tag-jess-smart-smiley","tag-kiddie-fun","tag-love","tag-pets-animals","tag-upside-down"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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