A cast of nocturnal creatures are the surprise stars in a funny tale
about nighttime fears, set in southwest Kenya. The latest tale in the
best-selling Handa series.
When Handa sleeps over at her friend Akeyo's house, she hears lots of
strange sounds in the night: snorts, chattering, rattling, squeaks,
slurps, wails, a big thud. Akeyo says it's just her family, laughing,
talking, playing music, riding a bike, drinking their bedtime milk. Or
maybe the baby crying. Or a door slamming. But is she right? Young
readers will be happy to be in on the joke as a sequence of animals pay
a visit on the facing pages: a pig, fox, porcupine, bat, pangolin, bush
baby, owl, and woodpecker. Illustrated in luminous colors, Eileen
Brown's humorous take on things that go bump in the night includes
endpapers picturing and naming all the nocturnal creatures.