Obscura the Cat Sees Beyond, by Ben Franchi (Brown Books Kids, 2023, $16.99, 32pp, ages 5-10) Review by Skye Anderson
Obscura the Cat is a cat to get to know at night, in low light, as you follow her emerald green eyes and search for her brown-black fur as she melts into the background. If. You. Dare.
Her humans work on the top floor of their house but when Obscura wakes from a nap, the furniture chases her before a knight can hide her. Obscura, however, has to hurry and find her humans amidst the creepies and crawlies that pursue her in every room, every nook and cranny. And the reader will slowly look at all the details on each page, at the ghouls that seep out of the wallpaper, as Obscura runs into skeletons in the kitchen and scaries in the carpet.
Trace her travels (escapes?) throughout the house on the floor plan on the inside front and back covers and pray that she finds her humans in time to go outside for a picnic lunch.
The rhyming scheme reminds you of Edgar Allen Poe. . . . and as an added bonus, Obscura's eyes on the front dust cover shine in the dark!
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