~ Oversized Hardcover (28 x 26cm)
Young Tom wakes up in the middle of the night to an unusual sound, but his two-year-old brother Tim does not. When his fathers asks what it sounded like, Tom reveals a number of silly and scary options.
In John Irving's ninth novel A Widow for One Year, a creepy children's book author named Ted Cole writes a bedtime story about things that go bump in the night. That odd, gently comical tale is brought to life here with Tatjana Hauptmann's shadowy, moonlit pencil illustrations. Not too scary, nor too comforting, Irving's picture book debut A Sound like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound imaginatively captures that late-night world where everything looks and sounds a little like a monster.