The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Esenwine, Matt Forrest

Flashlight Night

32 pp. | Boyds | September, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-62979-493-8 $16.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Fred Koehler. A trio of kids sets off from a treehouse to explore a backyard with a flashlight. Digitally colored pencil drawings show the realistic elements of the backyard in the darker parts of the picture, while the beam of light emitted from the flashlight reveals all sorts of imaginative settings: a pirate ship; an Egyptian tomb. It's an old-fashioned, rip-roaring imaginary adventure.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2017