This book gives certain proof that repetition can build excitement rather than be boring.
This combination of a very simple text with Ruth Brown’s sombre and enticing illustrations casts a mysterious spell and gives a wide range of readers access to the book. Beginning with the wide canvas of ‘a dark, dark moor’ we follow a trail which leads to more and more specific hiding places until the surprise in the ‘dark, dark box’ is revealed.
Children will delight in following the black cat's progress through the dark wood, into the dark house, and eventually to the surprise discovery at the back of the toy cupboard, in this mysterious, beautifully illustrated picture book.
This stunning book - theme and pictures both - is based on a motif of great simplicity and power...a lovely end. - Observer
The most brilliant fusion of picture and theme. - T.E.S.
Ruth Brown's spooky read-aloud book pretends to be scarier than it is: even the youngest listener should be delighted by the punch line. - Time Magazine
The simplicity of the text and the expressive beauty of the illustrations build up the tension to culminate in a surprising ending in this stunning picture book. - Booktrust
Author
About Ruth Brown
Ruth Brown is the creator of some of Britain's best loved children's books. She has created a great many picture books for Andersen Press and is highly respected as an author and illustrator. She is married to artist Ken Brown and they have two grown-up sons and one grandchild.
