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Frightened by the night, Darkfright refuses to go outside and spends her evening pretending as if it were day, until one evening a star crashes through her door and she knows she is the only one who can repair it and return it safely to its place in the night sky.
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Grade 1-3?An absurd tale about a girl who is too afraid of the night to go to sleep. When night comes, Darkfright closes and locks every door and window in her house. She carefully covers each keyhole with gum so that the soucouyants, who "...would shed their skin...and come through the keyhole like a ball of light to take you far away," can't get through. She stays up all night long, disturbing her neighbors by singing loudly, chanting, and clapping to make the night think that her house is full of friends. She sleeps all day and misses the market full of colorful vegetables. When a beautiful star crashes through her door one morning, she fixes its bent point with flowers and herbs. Then she throws it back into the night sky. The ending is too abrupt and simplistic to cure Darkfright's deep paranoia, or to give readers a satisfying conclusion. The watercolor illustrations of the Caribbean island setting are well done, but are not enough to pull together this story, which is neither entertaining nor reassuring.?Janet M. Bair, Trumbull Library, CT
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Ages 5^-8. The rhythms and idioms of the Caribbean dialect warm this tale. "Darkfright" earned her nickname for her fear of the dark. Every day at sunset, she fills her house with candles, lamps, and lanterns. She seals up her windows, sings daytime songs, and throws parties for imaginary guests. Even the fireflies are enlisted to keep the ghosts away: "Glow darlings, shine-up the mango trees . . . . Shine in the eyes of the jumbies. Be sendin' them east of the seas." Then one dawn, a wounded star crashes through her door. Darkfright sympathizes with the celestial being and nurses it back to health. When her star returns to the heavens, she realizes for the first time that "the night, she's a heap of good things." Rhythm, rhyme, and humor make the text jump. Whimsical illustrations splash the pages with tropical colors. Readers with nighttime fears of their own will be soothed and amused. Leone McDermott
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- PublisherAtheneum
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0689801882
- ISBN 13 9780689801884
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorStow Jenny
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