Meet the Folks! The Addams Family by Alexandra West

THIS IS THE ADDAMS FAMILY.

GOMEZ AND MORTICIA ARE MARRIED. THEIR CHILDREN ARE PUGGSLEY AND WEDNESDAY. UNCLE FESTER IS GOMEZ/S UNUSUAL BROTHER.

THERE'S GRANDMAMA', GOMEZ' MORE UNUSUAL MOTHER, AND THEN THERE'S LURCH THE BUTLER.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY IS A BIT DIFFERENT! THEY THINK THUNDERSTORMS ARE PERFECT WEATHER.

Iterations of the Addams Family's story go back at least four generations of fans for the famed macabre family. Created in single panel cartoons in the The New Yorker by Charles Addams back in 1938, the characters which spoofed a bizarre American family grew in popularity and in 1964 became a live-actor hit on the black-and-white television screen. An animated version and a full-length TV movie continued the story in the 1970s, and in the 1990s a full-length theater live-action movie, with Academy Award nominations, as well as several more cartoons versions, were followed by a hit Broadway musical production. Now, proving that a old tropes, like the grisly Addams, never die, the 2019 3-D full-length cartoon version just opened in theaters for the Halloween season. (See trailer here).

As a boost for print media, Harper and Row's respected series of I-Can-Read  books has a paperback introduction to the fantasy family. The Addams are such  a venerable property that it's truly an "All in the Family" franchise that great-grandparents and grandparents can easily share with youngsters, and Alexandra West's and Lissy Martin's easy reader, The Addams Family: Meet the Family (I Can Read Level 2) (Harper I-Can-Read, 2019) is a good way to prep primary graders for the movie and give them some emergent reader print experience as well.

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