Scooby-Doo! and the Creepy Chef

by Jesse Leon McCann, Dan Davis (Illustrator)

Bring along your appetite when Shaggy and Scooby sign up the Mystery, Inc. gang to judge a cooking contest. But jinkies! It looks like there's trouble brewing! Someone is sabotaging the food, and it's up to Velma, Daphne, Fred, Scooby, and Shaggy to stop it and solve the mystery before the whole contest is spoiled!

Genres: Picture Books, Mystery, Childrens, Fiction

24 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Jesse Leon McCann is an American comic book and children's book author. He wrote most of the stories for the Pinky and the Brain comic series, edited two out of the four Simpsons episode guides, and wrote all of the Smiley the Psychotic Button comics for Chaos! Comics. McCann's Shrek II movie adaptation novel made the New York Times Best Selling Children's Book list in 2005. While McCann mostly scribes comic books and children's books, he has written for a variety of genres in different forms (such as the Austin Powers trivia game).

Reviews

[andrew meinzinger · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great Scooby-Doo advent

This is a great Scooby-Doo adventure it’ll have you guessing until the very end!

I read it to my seven-year-old daughter and she said “ it’s very funny!”

With a recommendation like that, how can you say no?

[William · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was one of the books that I read multiple times don't mean anything to me any more because of it being a really easy book and it not being as good as the show.

[Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was kind of ridiculous. I don't expect any of the Scooby-Doo books to be worthy of any awards or anything but this one was pretty awful. At one point I found myself checking page numbers, sure that I was missing a page, because the book made no mention of how characters went from being in one place to being somewhere else completely on the next page. Of course my almost 5 year old didn't even notice but it still drove me crazy. We will definitely be sticking to some of the other Scooby books.

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a fairly typical Scooby-Doo story, taking the gang to a cooking school for a cooking contest. This is a good picture book, with a short narrative and lots of colorful, action-filled illustrations. The mystery wasn't too difficult, nor was it very scary (more gross than anything.) We enjoyed reading it together, as much as all of the Scooby-Doo stories we find at our local library.

[Angela Hutchinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, and Fred are at it again. This time the mystery is about a creepy chef that is trying to sabotage a cooking contest. At the end, the person trying to scare away the other contestants was the uncle to a contestant and he wanted her to win. The gang did it again and saved the contest. This is a good book for students to do picture walks or have for their individual reading time.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 3 out of 5]

The gang is at a cooking school to help judge. FREE FOOD! But it's not all it's cracked up to be. The gang has to figure out who is putting bugs and things in the ingredients. And as always the gang has their antics and fun.

[Mary Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Esther borrowed this book from the library and it was a quick and easy book to read and for her to read.