Or is this completely inappropriate?

[Mowgli1970]

Dd is in year 6. She's had nightmares for a few nights since going back to school. When I talked to her about any worries or concerns she had, she mentioned her class novel was giving her nightmares - it's Dracula! Albeit the chilren's version, but I was a bit concerned that it's too scary for her. I can't ask the teacher to stop reading it though, dd doesn't want to say anything in case she gets teased. WWYD?

hey Mowgli1970! did you eat your dinner in the end?

I did! In a huffy silence

I don't think it's inaapropriate - unfortunatly some things give you nightmares even if innocuous generally. I can't read/watch anything with vampires in otherwise I get terrible nightmares about it, even stuff like Twilight

Blimey, poor dd. Maybe the teacher is influenced by all this stuff about boys falling behind and is deliberately choosing books she thinks will appeal to them?

I would assume it's been passed as suitable for y6 before the teacher is using it?

I would hope so. I think it's definitely aimed at the boys who are quite demanding generally in that class. I feel sorry for dd though - she's a quiet, good girl who would like to hear stories that don't give her palpitations!

I imagine that the teacher sees it as riding the crest of vampires' popularity with slightly older kids.

I would have a word- they may not drop the book, but perhaps some reassurance could be given?

at other thread ref!!

There is a chilldren's version of Dracula? How? What does he do instead? Does he have a 'thing' for blood oranges?

I'd try to reassure her best you can that it's fiction. Have you looked at it or is it just read in school?

If the reader in school is making 'sound effects' as they read it aloud to the children then that could be scaring her more than the book IYSWIM.....

Still, unless Dracula had dental issues and it is a story of how to feel at ease with your dentist........I'd be a bit concerned if my DD was upset too.

Twilight is very popular with pubescent girls though, isn't it? Certainly in Year 7.

I haven't read the original, but I think there's lots of straight/gay sexualised content and obviously lots of blood and gore!
I would hope it's well-edited! Bless her, she said even the cover scares her.

I am a knobber. I thought you said she was 6 not in year 6.

My DD has all the Twilight books and is 11.

Ignore my first post.

Sorry your DD gets upset.

Your DD just has a fab imagination! Tell her to make short stories out of the nightmares and show them to her teacher...

dd (10) was scared witless by Wallace & Gromit The Curse of the Were-Rabbit until recently...

tbh, I think reading the original Bram Stoker would probably leave me a bit wibbly late at night if I were the only one left awake.

And Frankenstein - all that dread and being chased by the monster he's created (and treated very badly). eek.

I still get nightmares about the film 'Death Becomes Her.' I watched it at the same age as your DD and found it terrifying.

I agree she must have a fab imagination. So long as she remembers that everything is absolutely most definitely pretend that should quell the fear a bit!