Investigating the claim requires sorting through the legitimate print merchandising that accompanied the franchise's theatrical releases. Following the box office success of the initial film in September 2012, Sony Pictures Consumer Products partnered with Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. The publisher rolled out a targeted line of early readers, board books, and 8x8 storybooks.
The archival bibliography confirms four primary early titles: Welcome to Hotel Transylvania (adapted by Calliope Glass), Dracula's Movie Night, My Little Monster, and Meet the Monsters. Later sequels introduced additional readers, including A Monster Surprise and novelizations centering on Dennis's vampire age transition. Notably absent from Simon & Schuster's Library of Congress registrations is any volume titled Mavis's First Halloween or narrative covering her childhood encounter with human holiday rituals.
The only legitimate print storybooks featuring young Mavis focus on mundane castle routines or sleepovers with Frankenstein and Wayne the Werewolf's pups. At no point did Little Simon publish an installment crossing Dracula's daughter into October 31 traditions, because doing so would violate the core narrative architecture established by screenwriter Todd Durham and director Tartakovsky.
