The monsters are terrified of her and her friends. At the next sleepover, the trio of friends open the closet and discover it is filled with demons, beasts and other monsters that Buffy will encounter later in Joss Whedon’s series. He explains that the first thing Buffy needs to do is to act bravely which will terrify the monster.
However, that skill will require training once she is older. He tells Buffy that she is not an ordinary child but a vampire slayer. They decide to ask the school librarian, Giles, for help (another familiar character to longtime fans). The closet noises begin, but all three children are too afraid to open the door. After some fun sleepover activities, it’s time to sleep. When Buffy decides she needs to discover what is in her closet, she asks her friends Willow and Xander (characters from the original show) to sleep over. Young readers can identify with Buffy’s fear of monsters in the closet and things that go bump in the night. This is an interesting departure and may not have the same fan appeal as the other “Pop Classics” titles. Unlike the other “Pop Classics” picture books which retell the original film or television story in a child-friendly format, Buffy the Vampire Slayer takes a look backwards to discover what Buffy and her friends were like as scared eight-year-old children in Sunnyvale.
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