num_pages: 28
description: Runner up for the I O D E Book Award, 2002Our Choice Award from the Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2001"On Monday dark as shut your eyesIt followed her home . . .Down the lane, over the lawn, Past the Marble Frog and the Granite SwanShe cast a glance - and quick as that -It was gone.The new collaboration between author Richard Thompson and illustrator Martin Springett is an eerie picture-book poem perfect for late-night reading. What is following the young witch home every night past the frightening statues and the sinister life-like trees? Before the witch discovers the identity of "the follower" young readers will find the answer to the mystery in the shadowy illustrations.Martin Springett's use of a new style for his illustrations sets the mood perfectly as the witch makes her way home night after night with the mysterious follower close behind. Richard Thompson's haunting poem is a perfect read-aloud for very young readers with plenty of repetition and rhyme.
language: English
title: The Follower
titlecomplete: The Follower
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside