Alison Reads

One day, a boy reluctantly working in his father’s bookstore sees a strange man pull out a straw and stick it between the pages of a book. He follows the man and ends up at a cemetery on the edge of town, where he talks to the man and discovers that he’s an ink-drinking vampire who became allergic to blood after 500 years. A brief little book (35 pages), this would be great fun for a Halloween read-aloud  for all ages. Translated from the French.