The Park in the Dark

by Martin Waddell

Book Overview

After night falls and their owner is asleep, three toy animals decide to go to the park and play. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0744507162
• ISBN13: 9780744507164
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Walker Books
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the best!

I wasn't that take with this book at first, but my two girls (2 and 4) loved it from the start and frequently ask to have it read again. It is beautifully illustrated, and if you look at it you know exactly where the girls bedroom window is from what you can see outside it. This is the story of three toys Loopy, little Gee and Me (me is the monkey who narrates the story), they go out at night to play in the park, but is scary "through the haunty hall, trying to look small' - but they get to the park and swing and play until somehting comes along and they run (it is a train) - They make it back to the house and you see them all tucked up with the little girl. It is anice story to talk about fears in the night, and how they are not anything but our imagination, and it is also night from an imagination point of view of what their toys do and play once they have gone to sleep for the night. As I said before, these are lovey illustrations, they are on a par with the best I have seen. The story is told in loose rhyme with the EEE sound Loopy, litte Gee, Me, etc - I also note that Waddell has written one of my other favourite children's books, Farmer Duck, that one illustrated by the wonderful Helen Oxenbury - also a nice slyly humourous book which parents will enjoy. I keep an eye out for his books now as they are generally excellent. Just lovely and recommended for children aged 2 and up.

My kids loved this book, and so did I!

As a child daycare provider, I am always looking for great kids books. This one has it all! The pictures are just the right amount of spooky, and the antics of "Loopy, Little Gee and me- all three" are sure to delight your little ones. A book my kids want to hear again and again.