Books like The Dark
By Lemony Snicket
For the kid who needs the closet checked and the hall light left on, this is a bedtime story that walks straight into the fear instead of around it. Quiet, shadowy, a little eerie, ultimately reassuring.
A young boy visits his nana in the city and finds it loud, crowded, and frightening — until she sews him a special cape that helps him feel brave enough to see it as wonderful.
A zombie girl who loves to dance enrolls in a ballet class for human girls, but stage fright before her first recital makes her fear her moans and groans will scare everyone away.
A mischievous rabbit sneaks into Mr. McGregor's vegetable garden against his mother's warning, and once he's spotted, must find his way home safely while being chased.
A girl in a red cloak walks alone through the woods to visit her ailing grandmother, unaware that a wicked wolf is following close behind with plans of his own.
A boy afraid to go to school rides his grandfather's 1952 Ford time machine back through Big Papa's own frightening moments, hearing the same lesson each time: that's called being brave.
A boy decides it's time to face the nightmare that lives in his closet each night, armed only with a toy gun and his own nerve.
A traveling trickster arrives in a village too terrified to celebrate Hanukkah, and must outwit a houseful of goblins — one each night — before facing their monstrous King.
A boardinghouse girl in nineteenth-century Paris spots a quiet stranger walking on air across the courtyard and begs him to teach her — not knowing he's a once-famous wire-walker now gripped by fear.
The smallest of twelve little girls living in a Paris house under Miss Clavel's care, one fearless girl isn't scared of tigers or mice — until one frightening night changes everything.
A young rabbit named Buttermilk walks home in the dark, terrified she sees a dragon, a bear, and a banshee lurking in the shadows around her.
A young girl is separated from her mother at the last moment and must sail to America alone, only to discover the address for her family in New York has smudged into illegible ink.
While the other field mice work all autumn gathering corn and nuts for winter, a quiet mouse gathers sun rays, colors, and words instead — and when the food runs low, his stories are what feed everyone.
