A Dark, Dark Tale

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I thought this was almost a play on words because of "A Dark Dark Tale" and a black cat does have a dark, dark tail. The faces that are drawn on the curtain really caught my attention, because it's not everyday that you see a lot of faces on a curtain.

I’ve brought it work and my preschool class has asked for it to be read multiple times a day for last 3 months.Children will delight in following the black cat’s progress through the dark wood, into the dark house, and eventually to the surprise discovery at the back of the toy cupboard, in this mysterious, beautifully illustrated picture book. The house in the story looks like it could be haunted, complete with cobwebs, black cats and all, so there are a lot of activities that could go along with this theme around that time of year. This repetition is a nice touch because it gives the book a sort of rhythm which, when read aloud, helps build suspense and emphasize the spookiness of the story.

This is also a great book to teach students to ask and answer questions about key details in a text: RL. The illustrations are very nice and detailed yet pretty dark but they add a lot of suspense to this book. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This would be a fantastic book to present to young children around Halloween time, perhaps adding a scary voice for effect.My preschoolers also love it when I turn the last page towards me for dramatic effect and then at the last second say “there was a mouse! What if he is thinking about what you might taste like with ketchup as he wades through the gloopy swamp? Ruth Brown's spooky read-aloud book pretends to be scarier than it is: even the youngest listener should be delighted by the punch line. I use this book as a mini lesson to show my class that some of the information listed might come from the picture. I wouldn’t consider it to be a particularly indepth book either, something that I feel is probably more entertaining than anything else.

The illustrations are superb, it doesn’t just feel like a book but like you’re being transported into another world. It may prove a little scary for very young children though - after all, this is a story all about the dark and the tricks it plays on us. The text is so simple that even non-readers will soon have the story memorized and will scare everyone with how often they pull this excellent book off the shelf! For very young children the repetition and the telling of the tale with very few words really works, and older children can enjoy this story as well. Es gibt einem das Gefühl von Abenteuerlust die Bilder zu durchforsten und darin die Tiere zu suchen und (Allerleis) zu entdecken.As you flip from page to page, the reader gets focused in on a more specific piece of information about this abandoned residence located in the middle of the woods.