When night falls and the shadows get longer and darker, Mouse is scared. How will he find his way
home? Luckily he meets a firefly who reassures him, 'I'm Ray and I'll light your way.'
On their starlit walk, however, it can seem that every shadow is lurking danger. And the meerkat,
chickens, frogs and squirrels who join them agree-until Ray flies close with his light and shows
what the shadows really are.
But sometimes, just sometimes, the shadows might be just what they look like . . .
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Alex Latimer is an author and illustrator living in Cape Town, which is why he regularly has to shoo baboons out of his lounge.
Alex's book Lion VS Rabbit won the Hampshire Picture Book Award 2014
