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Synopsis
On a starry, starry night Daisy hears a growl that makes her heart go pit-a-pat. It sounds like a story...Every night a new tale drifts up to Daisy - tales of robbers, shipwrecks and lost princesses. Until one night everything goes very quiet. Daisy very slowly looks under the bed to find...Three storytelling beasties! This is a lovingly crafted picture book about the power of imagination and the comfort of storytelling.
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Jenny Nimmo lives in a converted watermill in Wales. Her husband, David, is a painter and print-maker, and all three of her children speak Welsh fluently. For as long as she can remember, Jenny has loved books. She feels passionately that every child should have access to as many books as they want. Jenny enjoys writing about magic because it is inexplicable and unpredictable, and anything can happen. In 1986 her book, The Snow Spider, won the Smarties Grand Prix, and in 1987 it was awarded the Tir na n-Og by the Welsh Arts Council. The Rinaldi Ring was chosen as Guardian Book of the Week and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and received a commendation. Gwen Millward has always been fascinated by animals and insects. When she was very small her parents would often find her at the bottom of the garden, covered in mud and studying the tiny creatures that lived under stones. Gwen studied illustration at Edinburgh University and has since gone on to win the Booktrust Early Years Award in the Pre-school category for The Bog Baby (written by Jeanne Willis). Gwen is the daughter of Jenny Nimmo and artist David Millward.
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PreS-Gr 2-A child in a new home finds a way to cope with her nighttime fears. "The Beasties came to Daisy's house on a night when she couldn't sleep." The curly-haired moppet is afraid in her new bed in her new room. But the noises she hears are each of the strange creatures telling a magical story about an object, until, on the fourth night, she bravely turns on the light and discovers them under her bed. But they are tiny and nonthreatening and encourage her to invent her own story, which is the ticket to no longer being frightened. Each fanciful story has a fairy-tale flavor and showcases a friendship. The text is pleasant enough, but it is the artwork that shines. Daisy's room is large and shrouded in darkness, with the arriving beasties' shadows huge and frightening in the foreground. The beasties are monstrously appealing. One looks like a smaller white, four-legged Wild Thing; one is beetlelike; and the third is reminiscent of a blue-and-yellow-striped aardvark with a long tail. The illustrations are effectively atmospheric and packed with minute details; they fill the pages, ranging from four vertical panels to a series of spot-art images to large full-bleed spreads. A feast for the eyes, and a spark for the imagination, this invitation to become a storyteller will appeal to creative youngsters everywhere. A lovely addition.-Amy Lilien-Harper, The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CTα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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- PublisherEgmont Books
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1405242043
- ISBN 13 9781405242042
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages32
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