A haunting, don’t-read-this-before-bed mystery. When they take a position serving the Windsor family at an eerie manor in the sourwoods, they find themselves in the thick of a mystery. The Night Gardener follows Molly and Kip, two Irish children who are separated from their parents while crossing the sea to England. Wilson on scary stories.” But I bothered with it and I’m so glad, because The Night Gardener totally creeped me out, but it also gave me a new appreciation for what a scary story can be. It was this new attitude that gave me room to try The Night Gardener, a book I may not have bothered with pre-“N. And if what they are facing is truly and horribly awful (as is the case for too many kids), then fearless sacrificial friends walking their own fantastical (or realistic) dark roads to victory can be a very real inspiration and help.” The stories on which their imaginations feed should empower a courage and bravery stronger than whatever they are facing. But as children grow, fear and danger and terror grow with them, courtesy of the world in which we live and the very real existence of shadows. “There is absolutely a time and a place for The Pokey Little Puppy and Barnyard Dance, just like there’s a time and a place for footie pajamas. Wilson’s article for The Atlantic on why he writes scary stories for children.
A new vista of reading expanded before us! Books that might have upset her six months earlier she read without a hint of squeamishness. My eldest daughter turned eight and woke up one day a much less sensitive reader.Wilson’s 100 Cupboards trilogy and discovered a kind of scary that was also redemptive and, really, quite fun.
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