{"id":9731,"date":"2014-02-13T15:46:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2014\/02\/10\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:47:17","slug":"dreary-naughty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=9731","title":{"rendered":"Dreary & Naughty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Schiffer Publishing reached out to me with a fun little series that originally was let loose in 2003 and came back in 2013. Since it has a Valentine\u2019s Day book in the series I thought now would be a good time to lay these guys on you. We\u2019re talking about Dreary & Naughty.<\/p>\n

The series focuses on its two main characters, Dreary (son of the Grim Reaper) and Naughty (daughter of the Devil). Both of them are in high school and the books focus on the sort of issues you face during those years, such as deciding what to do with your life, romantic rivalry, and feelings of ostracization. All of this is written by John LaFleur\u2026..in rhyme. The books are all illustrated adorably by Shawn Dubin. The Dreary & Naughty books are like children\u2019s picture books, for teenagers and adults. It may seem odd, but it works.<\/p>\n

The first book in the series is \u201cThe Misadventures of Dreary & Naughty\u201d and the third book is \u201cDreary & Naughty: The ABC\u2019s of Being Dead\u201d. Like I said, with Valentine\u2019s Day being here, I thought we should focus on the second book, \u201cDreary & Naughty: Friday the 13th of February\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Dreary and Naughty: Friday the 13th of February<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"<\/a>I don\u2019t want to give too much away, but we start with it being Friday the 13th of February, the day before Valentine\u2019s Day. Dreary and Naughty are best friends. It almost goes without saying, but the teenage daughter of the Devil, Naughty, is smoking hot. Sometimes literally. Dreary, being an introverted skeleton, is not a big hit with the ladies. In fact, he didn\u2019t receive a single Valentine\u2019s card from anyone. Yet Naughty, despite the tail and horns, is rolling in cards from admirers.<\/p>\n

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A Few Valentine's in Naughty's Locker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This creates some tension between the friends. We see Dreary working hard to finish his gift for Naughty for their Valentine\u2019s Day date. Does Naughty get her act together in time to let Dreary know how much he means to her? There\u2019s only one way to find out!<\/p>\n

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Happy Valentine's Day!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing says Valentine’s fun like storybooks about the offspring of the Devil and the Grim Reaper! Click on in, it’s a fun time at The Magical Buffet today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}