Audiobook7 minutes
A Dark, Dark Tale
Written by Ruth Brown
Narrated by Ian Thomson
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Each step is more tantalizing than the one before on a spooky journey up dark stairways and through hidden passages. Being scared has never been more fun!
Author
Ruth Brown
Ruth Brown is the creator of some of Britain's best loved children's books, that have been shortlisted for many awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal. She has created a great many picture books for Andersen Press and is highly respected as an author and illustrator. She was born in Devon and now lives in London and Kent.
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Reviews for A Dark, Dark Tale
Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In a dark, dark. . . . there was a mouse looking suitably terrified!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This dark, dark story takes you on a spooky journey to find something surprising in the end.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The suspense slowly builds, in this dark, dark tale, as the simple, repetitive text, and intensely involving acrylic illustrations work together to draw the reader in. "Once upon a time there was a dark, dark moor," the tale begins, and each two-page spread that follows narrows the focus - there is a dark, dark wood on the dark, dark moor; then a dark, dark house in the dark, dark wood; and so on - until finally, we discover what is waiting for us, at the end of all this dark darkness...Ruth Brown is a well-known British picture-book creator - her recent Gracie, The Lighthouse Cat, published earlier this year, is the only other one of her titles I have read, thus far - and A Dark, Dark Tale, originally released in 1981, looks to be one of her most popular. I can certainly understand why! I really liked the way the text and images worked together, in this one, and the way that Brown sets up her readers' expectations, only to pull the rug out from under them! I don't know if every child will really like the ending, but they will be surprised by it. All in all, this is a title I would recommend giving a try, particularly at Halloween time!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How scary that I look forward to scaring the hoo-ha's out of little kids each year with this book!