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    A Dark, Dark Tale
    A Dark, Dark Tale
    A Dark, Dark Tale
    Audiobook7 minutes

    A Dark, Dark Tale

    Written by Ruth Brown

    Narrated by Ian Thomson

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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!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWeston Woods
    Release dateJan 1, 1983
    ISBN9780545257909
    A Dark, Dark Tale
    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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    • 4/5
      In a dark, dark. . . . there was a mouse looking suitably terrified!
    • 4/5
      This dark, dark story takes you on a spooky journey to find something surprising in the end.
    • 3/5
      The 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!
    • 5/5
      How scary that I look forward to scaring the hoo-ha's out of little kids each year with this book!