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fear of the dark

The moonlit journey

1991
Three encounters reassure a little boy who is scared of the dark.

Eleanor Roosevelt and the scary basement

2006
Shares a story from Eleanor Roosevelt's childhood, telling how she learned to overcome her fears after accomplishing a frightening task for her aunt.

Amy's light

2010
A young girl discovers a light in nature that helps her overcome her fear of the dark. Includes an author's note about fireflies.

What's that noise?

2002
Alex calms his younger brother when they hear strange noises at bedtime, but is he brave enough to cross the cold floor of their dark room when a feet-grabbing, toe-eating, noise-making "something" might get him?.

Night light

a story for children afraid of the dark
1991
A story of an underground child who fears the light designed to help those who fear the dark.

Switch on the night

1993
A lonely little boy who is afraid of the dark is introduced to a whole new world by a little girl named Dark.

Night lights

a Sukkot story
1995
A young boy learns about the meaning of Sukkot while overcoming his fear of the dark. Includes information on the history and customs of Sukkot.

When someone is afraid

2005
A young boy learns how various animals deal with fear when he wakes up at night scared after a bad dream.

Skipper gets spooked

2009
When Skipper and her friends join moths for a night-time adventure, she begins to fear the dark after hearing a scary story about a bug with large black and white wings who steals colors from butterflies at night.

The monster who ate darkness

2008
Jo-Jo can't go to sleep because of the monster under his bed that keeps gobbling up the darkness in the world until there is none left. When the monster sees the chaos the world is in without any darkness and night, it returns home to Jo-Jo's house and makes things right again.

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