Reviews on Scooby Doo & the Haunted Castle - LeapPad Interactive Book LeapFrog

This particular title is recommended for children at Stage 2 of the LeapPad library, which is children between six and eight years old. The story itself features the popular cartoon character Scooby Doo and his friends and is 55 pages (eight chapters) long, so an ideal length for young readers starting to read by themselves. Viewers of the Scooby Doo TV series won't be surprised to learn that Scooby Doo and the Haunted Castle closely follows the same story format. The gang are driving though a dark and stormy night (what else?) when the Mystery Machine gets a puncture. Going to the nearest house for help (which turns out to be the usual spooky Gothic mansion), the gang are invited to stay for supper by the owner, Clift Montgomery (like the actor Montgomery Clift--get it?). It turns out that Clift has recently agreed to donate the house to the local council as a museum. Their fellow dinner guests include various prominent local citizens who all have their objections to the plan. Clift's sudden dramatic disappearance gives the gang a new mystery to solve, although as always Scooby requires bribery in the form of his favourite Scooby Snacks before he'll join in. Naturally, when the villain is eventually unmasked his parting riposte is "I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those kids and their pesky dog".