What's Roamin' in the Gloamin'? Peppa Pig: Night Creatures by Neville Astley

Peppa and George were having a sleepover at Grammy and Grandpa Pig's house.

As it grows dark, Grandpa heads out to look for slugs on the plants in his garden. He tells Peppa and George that the slugs only come out at night, and the two begin to wonder what other critters roam only in the dark. Grandpa is only too happy to hold forth on the subject.

"Some are asleep all day and awake mostly at night. In fact, there's one night creature up in this tree.

HOOT!

Peppa and George's own eyes get almost as big as the owl's when they point their flashlight at those glowing eyes up in that tree, in Neville Astley's latest Peppa book, Night Creatures: A Lift-the-Flap Book (Peppa Pig) (Scholastic, 2018). And that's just the beginning in this light-the-night, lift-the-flap book with surprising creatures of the night under each flap and a tiny flashlight on the cover to add to the fun. Bats and hedgehogs are soon spotted, and Peppa and George are amazed at all the awesome animals to be seen, until Grandpa points out that, unlike these creatures, they can't stay awake all night, and Grandma Pig points them toward their own bedtime.

Fans of the Peppa Pig television program will enjoy discovering the varieties of night life under the sturdy flaps with the toy flashlight and will perhaps want to follow up with more night animals, as in Lizi Boyd's award-winning Flashlight (read review here) and Divya Srinivason's Little Owl's Night, see review here.)