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I loved it. The most beautiful thing Walt has done. --Maurice Sendak Wangerin's flight of fancy is full of love, and that is what the listener cannot help but hear. --Jan Karon Any child who gets this read to them will feel safe and protected. --Janell Cannon, author and illustrator of Stellaluna In a series of rhymes, Wangerin ( Probity Jones and the Fear Not Angel ) dispels a child's fear of the dark by teaching the lessons of God's love and presence. As the rhymes begin, a mother responds to her son's question: How much do I love you? / Lay down your head, / My gingerbread, / And listen: I'll tell you. She elaborates by telling him that if robbers should come into the room, I'd clobber those robbers / Until they slobbered / And all their teeth decayed. If her son is threatened by monsters, I'd grab my reaper, / My vacuum sweeper, / And suck those monsters down! After she reassures him that she will protect him against all things, the mother then tells her son, Here in your room / All night while you're sleeping, / Kinder and wiser / And best for safekeeping / Is God. Huang's illustrations capture the wildness of the child's imagination and provide just the right background for Wangerin's humorous rhymes. Ages 5-8. -- Publishers Weekly

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