The idea was there behind this book but it was poorly executed. This needed to have more time spent on it. Felt too rushed.

This was a really sweet read. I was really pleased to see a main character with a disability featured, especially as that isn't the main focus of the story. The black and white illustrations are beautiful.

The book is split into short chapters and perfect for bedtime story reading or children who have just started reading chapter books by themselves. A great read if you have a little one who is a bit scared of the dark. The second half of the book isn't as good as the first and is a little dialogue heavy, but we still enjoyed it!

Well, this started excellently. Aneira is afraid of the dark – and that's mostly because she's quite deaf, and uses hearing aids in the daytime, but can't hear anything monstrous that she imagines shares her bedroom with her approach without them. When her night-light packs up late one evening she scorns the moon as an alternative – only for it to vanish. What turns up as a way for her to rectify that is, of all things, a giant talking (ie Aneira can hear it) owl, but the conversation they have is almost enough to have caused her to switch her aids off. "It can be a little slow getting things done" the owl says about something else, but we know the feeling by then. Thus a wonderful beginning is scuppered by quite mundane yacking, and a lot of the wonder is lost. It clearly is a lesson in how Aneira/us can accept the dark, but it has a quite risible solution, and it never for once seeds the idea that it was a dream, as any sensible book of such kind would. I wanted to love Aneira and what she represented as a person of disability that is conveyed really expertly, but too much of this was left wanting.