Ann Hodgman è un'autrice americana riconosciuta principalmente per la sua vasta opera nella letteratura per bambini. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da un arguto ingegno e una prospettiva acuta, spesso umoristica, su argomenti quotidiani. Oltre ai suoi contributi per giovani lettori, ha anche pubblicato libri di cucina e libri umoristici, mostrando una distintiva voce narrativa e acute capacità di osservazione. I suoi saggi sono apparsi in notevoli raccolte e le sue narrazioni spesso approfondiscono temi non convenzionali con inaspettata profondità.
Meg, her friend Voldar, and "Batboy," an injured baby bat, must complete a dangerous mission at the vampire castle ordered by her bloodsucking ex-babysitter--or else she will be the next vampire in Drazylvonia.
Eleven-year-old Meg is not happy that her mother insists on hiring a babysitter for her and her younger brother, especially one with pointed teeth and a fondness for biting people's necks.
Meg and her friend Kelly are babysitting and trying also to keep away a vampire.
C.D. Bitesky realizes he has a big problem when his fifth-grade teacher asks everyone in class to bring in an old family recipe for a Thanksgiving celebration. Sure, his Transylvanian ancestors all had their favorite nourishment--but then vampires have such peculiar tastes!
The ""chances grow smaller every year that you will die in childbirth"" is only one of many amusing reasons why people should look on the bright side of getting older in this amusing book about aging and the later years in one's life. Original. 60,000 first printing."