Katie and the Night Noises

by Jacqueline Sweeney

Book Overview

When Erin arrives for class at Oshawa Secondary, she learns that her friend Marcel has been badly beaten up. She immediately wonders whether it was a gay-bashing, or whether he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Marcel is in a coma, so she has no clues to help her. As far as she knows he doesn't have any enemies, but there are plenty of guys at school who don't hide their hateful feelings for gay people. When the police investigation of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816730148
• ISBN13: 9780816730148
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Bridgewater Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.3" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 2 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Review by my ... daughter Ashley

I love this book because she gets out of bed and then she starts imagining things like as if there's monkeys dancing and then she thinks that there are ghosts on her roof.My favorite thing about Katie is that she imagines. I like this book because it is fun and it has a good ending.There are nice pictures in this book because she was drawn with curly hair kind of, I think.Mommies and Daddies should buy this book for their kids because it is fun.

A lyrical romp through the world of a child's imagination.

This book is one of the best children's books I have ever read. It not only captures the world of a child's imagination in fun rhythms and bright images, it speaks to the depths of the mother and daughter relationship. The tension between the mother, reading stories to quiet and calm her child so she will rest, and the unbridled energy of her daughter's robust romp through the jungle of her imagination--and her dreams--touched the very essence of my feelings as a daughter, and a mother of a little girl. This is a perfectly crafted story, woven out of the poetic imagination and language of a truly gifted writer. More than a story, it is a song to celebrate the spirit of the little girl in us all, who, like Katie, "still wanted more."