Mouse has been having such fun on his walk that he hasn’t noticed how dark it’s got. But now the sun has set and the shadows are getting longer and darker…
Poor Mouse is scared until meets a friendly firefly who offers to help, ‘I’m Ray and I’ll light your way.’ Even with Ray as company, Mouse keeps seeing frightening shapes in the shadows, but each one turns out to be just another creature wanting to get home and prepared to admit they’re a little bit scared of the dark. As they all follow Ray together, there’s one final surprise that will have young readers gasping (though fortunately Ray is still there to lead the way home).
This funny, reassuring picture book has lots to recommend it and is a bright way to banish night-time fears.
When night falls and the shadows get longer and darker, Mouse is scared. How will he find his way home? Luckily he meets a firefly who reassures him, 'I'm Ray and I'll light your way.'
On their starlit walk, however, it can seem that every shadow is lurking danger.
And the meerkat, chickens, frogs and squirrels who join them agree-until Ray flies close with his light and shows what the shadows really are.
But sometimes, just sometimes, the shadows might be just what they look like . . .
Alex Latimer is the award-winning South African author and illustrator of many picture books including Am I Yours?, Lula and the Sea Monster, Mole Hill, and most recently Food Fight.
His picture books have been translated into dozens of languages and have been published all over the world. He lives in Cape Town.
