Title The Little Vampire Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art Daniel Duncan Publisher Aladdin - 2022 First Printing Rowohlt - 1979
	Title The Little Vampire Moves In Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Little Vampire Takes a Trip Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Little Vampire on the Farm Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Little Vampire in Love Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art Jeff Lindbergh Publisher Minstrel Books - 1995 First Printing Rowohlt - 1985
	Title The Little Vampire in Danger Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Little Vampire in the Vale of Doom Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Little Vampire in Despair Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Little Vampire and the Mystery Patient Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Little Vampire in the Lion's Den Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Little Vampire Learns to be Brave Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Little Vampire Gets a Surprise Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Little Vampire and the Wicked Plot Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Little Vampire and the School Trip Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Little Vampire and the Christmas Surprise Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Little Vampire Meets Count Dracula Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title Der kleine Vampir und die Tanzstunde Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title Der kleine Vampir und die Gruselnacht Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title Der kleine Vampir und die letzte Verwandlung Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title Der kleine Vampir und die Frage aller Fragen Author Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Category Children Warnings None Main Characters Tony, Rudolph, Anna, Olga Main Elements Vampires Website ---

The Little Vampire

The Little Vampire in Love

As a kid there was the Canadian made show called The Little Vampire, I have some vague memories of watching it but I never thought it might be based on a series of books. Jump ahead a few decades and I'm in a local coffee shop where they have a book exchange and discovered The Vampire in Love. It was short, it looked cute I thought why not nab it for a quick read. Much to my surprise, there was Rudolph, most certainly the vampire from the TV series! And now not only do I learn its a book series, quite a long one at that, but its not Canadian at all but German.

It's a story about a human boy who befriends a vampire boy and his sister. They are a little, well, strange. Guess growing up in a crypt you don't learn about things like TV or records. Anna also felt a used pacifier made a wonderful gift, to be fair it was all she had to give but, ewww. What I like about this story is that the vampires aren't just regular humans with fangs but they come off as truly different. They smell musty, their clothes are in a tatter, they live in a cemetery, and of course when Tony gets a bloody nose, all bets are off!

Now that I know this series exists I'll keep my eye out for it, the ones translated into English at least.

May 2025

The library has a few of them, so I was able to read the first book to find out how Tony and Rudolph meet. Tony's parents are strange to say the least, though nothing compared to Rudolph's. They seem to keep track of every little thing he does and yet, every Saturday they go out to a movie or dinner and leave him home alone. This of course solves the problem of inviting a vampire into your bedroom without your parents noticing but still. Anyway, its still cute so I'll see how many more of these I can nab.