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”A boy collects and stores treasures in a pouch while exploring the outdoors. When night falls, the boy realizes he is far from home and starts to head back. Peaceful night sounds serenading him turn to clinking, clicking, and rustling sounds which begin to frighten him. He decides that the unsettling sounds must be coming from The Night Walker, a most-feared creature with long, sharp claws who carries a boy-catching sack. In this cautionary tale, Springett’s sweeping illustrations create varying moods through the use of different colour hues. Throughout the story, the illustrator creates differing levels of tension by changing the respective sizes of the characters.”
- Canadian Bookseller
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”Springett’s panoramic color illustrations are particularly effective in evoking the creatures that the boy conjures up…The suspenseful tone relieved by a logical explanation and the sweeping art recall an earlier Thompson-Springett collaboration, The Follower…The combination of large, intriguing illustrations and an air of mystery offers read-aloud and discussion potential.”
- School Library
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"Martin Springett's stylized artwork blends fact and fantasy as the young boy imagines what might be following him along the forest trails. Created with crayon and shaded with charcoal and crayon, Mr. Springett makes the boy's journey, and accompanying fear, tangible and memorable."
- Brandon This Week Journal
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Author Richard Thompson weaves a tale of mystery and suspense with characteristically skillful, rhythmic prose. Martin Springett's sweeping, stylized artwork captures the sense of danger without taking its young audience too far. This is another fine collaboration from the author and illustrator of the best-selling title, The Follower.
Dear Martin,
Congratulations, “The Night Walker’ arrived today and I think it is superb, a wonderfully clever and marvelously decoratively illustrated book. The simplicity of flowing line and your intriguing technique look so deceptively simple but can only come from someone with sound drawing and perfect colour sense. It was so clever of you to illustrate what could have been obvious and frightening pictures, no wonder you got the award judged by the children. The pictures simply flow and to my mind it is a perfectly Illustrated book.
by Pauline Baynes ( The first artist to illustrate JRR Tolkien, and the illustrator of the Narnia Books by C S Lewis. )
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