Those who make Winner’s Walk disappear the next day. Once a camper is victorious six times, they earn the right to parade in the “Winner’s Walk” where they are the envy of all.īut there’s a problem. While Wendy is symbolic of a casual athlete-one who commits the ultimate sin of letting someone else win-her brother’s relentless desire to defeat is made for Jellyjam. When our protagonist, Wendy, suggests a relaxing dip in the pool to calm her nerves, her new friend Dierdre counters “'I never play for fun!.You have to compete…you can’t just swim.'” “Only the best” becomes a mantra for toxic competitiveness, which the camp thrives on.
The allegory is first introduced when Buddy, the counselor who “seemed to have two thousand teeth,” reiterates the mysterious camp slogan: Only the Best. Like Gulliver’s Travels and The Wizard of Oz, The Horror at Camp Jellyjam provides extensive social and political commentary under the guise of a kid’s adventure. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history.
Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences.
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