cover image Some Things Are Scary: No Matter How Old You Are

Some Things Are Scary: No Matter How Old You Are

Florence Parry Heide. Candlewick Press (MA), $12 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-2147-6

Some Things Are Scary (No Matter How Old You Are) by Florence Parry Heide, illus. by Jules Feiffer, demonstrates an assortment of scary things, from ""stepping on something squishy when you're in your bare feet"" to ""climbing a tree when you don't remember how to get down."" Wry pictures demonstrate that scary things can be funny too in this witty and reassuring gift book.