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Pearce, Clemency

Frangoline and the Midnight Dream

32 pp. | Scholastic/Chicken House | August, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-545-31426-8 $16.99

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Rebecca Elliott. Frangoline is "good as gold" all day, but at night she's a mischief-maker. While the moon watches worriedly--"Little ones should be in bed!"--Frangoline sneaks out of the house. A romp through the graveyard ends in a ghostly confrontation before bedtime. Rhyming text relates the raucous adventure, while sketchy pen drawings, digitally layered with colors and textures, add to the story's mild spookiness.

Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan