Kipper's Monster
Mick Inkpen captures the delicious scariness of whatmightgo  bump in the night inKipper's Monster. The trouble starts when Tiger and  Kipper pick up a picture book that begins, "Deep in the middle of the dark, dark  wood, there lived a horrible, horrendous, terrible, tremendous..." Just to  torture themselves further, they decide to camp in the woods that night with the  book. Of course, once outside, Tiger has second thoughts, especially with  imagined bears, a tremendous "Screech!" coming from a hole in a tree, and the  shadow on the tent wall of something with horns! (It's just a snail.) They don't  get very far in their reading of the scary book until they're safely back in  Tiger's bedroom. As ever, Inkpen's drawings are charming and expressive, and the  happy ending will make youngsters feel safe and cozy. (Baby to preschool)--Karin Snelson