Overview
Runner up for the I O D E Book Award, 2002
Our Choice Award from the Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2001
On Monday dark as shut your eyes
It followed her home . . .
Down the lane, over the lawn,
Past the Marble Frog and the Granite Swan
She cast a glance - and quick as that -
It was gone.
The new collaboration between author Richard Thompson and illustrator Martin Springett is an eerie picture-book poem perfect for late-night reading. What is following the young witch home every night past the frightening statues and the sinister life-like trees? Before the witch discovers the identity of the follower" young readers will find the answer to the mystery in the shadowy illustrations.
Martin Springett's use of a new style for his illustrations sets the mood perfectly as the witch makes her way home night after night with the mysterious follower close behind. Richard Thompson's haunting poem is a perfect read-aloud for very young readers with plenty of repetition and rhyme.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781550415322
- ISBN-10: 1550415328
- Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
- Publish Date: October 2000
- Dimensions: 10.29 x 9.32 x 0.46 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.93 pounds
- Page Count: 28
- Reading Level: Ages 6-9
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