"A delightfully eerie rhyming story of a walk in the dark, which proves ultimately reassuring."
This delightfully eerie picture book story of a walk in the dark raises the tension as high as it can go before releasing it with laughter and clever reassurance.
A silver moon hangs in the sky and a ghostly chill is settling on the town as a girl and her black cat head out with a pumpkin lantern. The spooky sense that something else is out and following mounts as the pages turn, Jack-o-lanterns flickering and shadows growing. Even the other ghosts out trick or treating seem to feel it until eventually the rustling in the hedge gets too much and you (we’ve become the characters) rush home to hide under the covers.
But oh no! The thing is in the house and getting nearer. Fear is banished first by surprise and then laughter as we find out what’s been making these scary noises.
John Dougherty’s text is a poem and wonderful to read aloud, rich in vocabulary and full of vivid images while Matt Schu’s black and orange illustrations are full of atmosphere, tension and humour too. The denouement is perfect, reassuring us that things we fear at night are not so scary in the light. The balance between fear and laughter is beautifully done and this will sit alongside classics such as Satoshi Kitamura’s Lily Takes a Walk or Mini Grey and Maudie Powell-Tuck’s new Frankenkitty.
You’ll find the things we fear because we hear them in the night . . . . . . are often not so scary when we see them in the light.
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You’ll find the things we fear because we hear them in the night . . . . . . are often not so scary when we see them in the light. As night falls and strange whispers seem to follow your every step, the question lingers - what's out there in the dark? Packed with suspense, this unputdownable story will keep young readers on the edge of their seats, eventually revealing that some things are more frightening in the darkness than they are in the light. A modern classic in the spirit of Jon Klassen's The Skull and Oliver Jeffers' There's a Ghost in this House, suspense deepens with every page and the spine-tingling tale brims with eerie suspense and a powerful, reassuring message.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Something in the Darkness and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-8 years old
Something in the Darkness features in the following genres: Featured Books for 5+ readers, Featured Books for 7+ readers, Recommendations, Horror & Ghost Stories, Stories in Verse, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Celebrations, holidays, festivals and special events, Children’s picture books, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s: picture books, activity books, early learning concepts, Children’s / Teenage emotions: Worry, fear, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods, feelings and behaviours, People / Places
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Something in the Darkness was written by John Dougherty and published by Post Wave Children's Books an imprint of Post Wave Publishing UK LTD
Something in the Darkness has 32 pages
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