Karma Meets a Zombie is probably the most ambitious book I've chosen for my reading programme for ages nine and ten. I read Karma Fights a Monster some time ago and I loved it. I even wrote about it in an essay on monsters and stereotypes because I was struck by how unusual the monster is.Karma Meets a Zombie is a different kind of unusual. For instance, is the monster necessarily the antagonist? What makes someone a monster? And what does a monster hunter do, really?There are several reasons I call it an ambitious read for my book club. For one, no pictures! It's the first book we're reading together that has no inside illustrations.Two, I haven't touched upon horror as a theme at all so far, especially as I didn't read much horror as a child. (I did read a few Goosebumps because I won five of those for ... something. Now that I come to think of it, I … [Read more...]