Handa's Noisy Night

<b>A cast of nocturnal creatures are the surprise stars in a funny tale about nighttime fears set in southwest Kenya. The latest tale in the best-selling Handa series.</b> <p/>When Handa sleeps over at her friend Akeyo's house she hears lots of strange sounds in the night: snorts chattering rattling squeaks slurps wails a big thud. Akeyo says it's just her family laughing talking playing music riding a bike drinking their bedtime milk. Or maybe the baby crying. Or a door slamming. But is she right? Young readers will be happy to be in on the joke as a sequence of animals pay a visit on the facing pages: a pig fox porcupine bat pangolin bush baby owl and woodpecker. Illustrated in luminous colors Eileen Brown's humorous take on things that go bump in the night includes endpapers picturing and naming all the nocturnal creatures.