The Little Vampire

By Angela Sommer-Bodenburg

Tony loves reading creepy stories about vampires. But when one night he finds a real vampire sitting on his windowsill, he is very surprised and terribly frightened. Luckily the little vampire turns out to be friendly. Thus begin the adventures of Tony, Rudolph, Anna the Toothless, Gruesome Gregory, and Nightwatchman McRookery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rowohlt Verlag
• Release date: Sep 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9781453270448

Angela Sommer-Bodenburg

Angela Sommer-Bodenburg is the author of several fantasy books for children. Her most famous contribution to the field of children’s fantasy is The Little Vampire series which has sold over 10 million copies and has been translated into over thirty languages. Sommer-Bodenburg states that her “vampire is not a bloodthirsty monster, however, but an affectionate little vampire with fears and foibles who will perhaps help free children of their own fears.” The novel, written in 1979, spawned a series of books, and the plot has been adapted to theater, radio, cinema, and television. A Canadian-German TV series was released in 1986 and a film version, directed by Uli Edel was released in 2000.

Reviews for The Little Vampire

[teixd2 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I read this on paperback a long long time ago and loved it. I wish I had kept them, I had at least three, but I lost them at some point. Now I am reading them on ebook format.Great little story and easy to read. Very unknown series, but worth finding.

[sanoiro · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I read the first book related to the “The Little Vampire” 17 years ago. After that I persuade my mother to buy me the 13 or 14 available books of the series all together. I still remember being in the fifth grade and during my Easter vacations I was reading 3 books per day.

The series is a delightful story that reveals what a little boy has to deal with when makes friends with a seemingly child-vampire. Chaos ensues with borrowed books, moving coffins, saving the coven, being romantically pursued by the milk-drinking sister of his vampire friend as well as discovering that teenage hood is difficult even for the undead (Even more when you are convinced that you know how to play bowling). The story unravels with each book and each book is addicting. That much that at some point The Little Vampire even goes for psychological support and sun training. Also enjoyable is that you don’t know which one is the antagonist of that little boy. The cemetery keeper with his obsession to extinguish all vampires that occupy his cemetery or aunt Dorothea, a rather glutton vampire firmly dedicated to the “old ways” of bloodsucking?

Personally I’m extremely happy to read the series again after lending my books and probably losing them for ever...