When the snows blow wildAnd the day grows old,Beware, the snowman, my child.Beware, the snowman.He brings the cold.Jaclyn is very unhappy. Her legal guardian, Aunt Greta, has moved them from Jaclyn's beloved Chicago to the remote village of Sherpia, in Switzerland (?). Jaclyn's mother died when she was five. Her father took off right after Jaclyn was born.The town is white, nearly empty, and very strange. The locals have a penchant for building snowmen. Well, not snowmen - one snowman in particular. They always build the same one. He has a red scarf and a sneering mouth - and a huge scar across his face.Jaclyn is living right next to a mountain, and she meets some local kids. When she tells them her intention to climb to the top, they panic and insist she can't do it. What's at the top of the mountain? Why is everyone almost religious about building identical snowmen? And why won't Jaclyn's aunt answer any of her questions?...This was actually an amazing Goosebumps book, despite the rather silly title. It has a great, thick atmosphere of snow and cold. Jaclyn being an only child and being brought into a new village and a new country lends to the spookiness. The book is a combination of horror, mystery and journey (Jaclyn's journey to the mountaintop). I enjoyed it, definitely a stronger entry in the series.
This book made me realize how much more fun Goosebumps TV show would have been had it been a cartoon (or as their calling it now: animated series")instead of real actors. The book had more twists than an old pretzel. It was fun. Living in a snowy state during winter, I can relate to all the snow. Everything is connected. In other books I've said to skip the first few chapters as their pretty much meaningless, but for this one every chapter is important in telling the story. We have a girl who moves with her aunt from Chicago to Sherpia (Don't ask me what that is)for the fun of it. Later in the book you find out why. Creepy when every house has the same exact snowman built in their yard. A fun read....."He has a heart of cold"? Really? Who comes up with these corny captions?
What do You think about Beware, The Snowman (2006)?
A book that started scary and became increasingly unbelievable and stupid. I had to give it two stars instead of just one for the tension and suspense that Stine created expertly in the first half of the book. But I was waiting for him to take it to a very scary and clever climax and that just didn't happen. Instead he warped a good story and made it into a joke. He should have carried on down the path of horror, instead of rationalising a story about a snowman that comes alive to terrorize people.
—Emily May
This book gives you the goosebumps because its about this young girl named Jacklyn Defrost who really wants to see the snowman's cave in this village where she berely moved in with her Aunt Greta.Her new freidns keep informing her not to go up that mountain because the snowman is really dangerous. The story was that Jackyln's mom and dad were laeraning about magic that they were socceres and that they started learning even more powerful magic and which lead to form a nasty, terrible monster who was nasty and disgusting so they couldn't get rid off that thing so they turned it into a snowman and he lives on the very top of the snowy mountain that is far off the small village.Jackyln's mom didn't know what to do so she got upset and decided to leave far away from the problem. All these years Jackyln noticed that the weird guy she had met in this cabin in between the snowman's dark cave and the village people because he didn't want the snowman to harm anybody since that is what he created.
—Marco De La Rosa
This book was really interesting in the beginning. Everyone but Jaclyn acted so scared and mysterious when it came to the snowman. The suspense made me keep reading, and really kept my attention. I could not wait to figure out what was the deal with that weird snowman! Towards the end though... everything happened so fast. You discover a lot of things in a matter of paragraphs. And since the end of the book is pretty action packed, everything seems to happen so fast that I felt that I really did not process everything that was being thrown at me. None the less, this was a very entertain and suspenseful book to read!
—Sammie Ortiz
