What There Is Before There Is Anything There: A Scary Story

Lights out — and strange creatures descend from the black where the ceiling used to be. Worst of all is the shapeless one that says, “I am what there is before there is anything there…” Liniers’ Hergé-tinged, hand-lettered art turns nighttime fear into a graphic-novel picture book for the youngest readers: the monsters don’t vanish, but the boy finds a way to cope. Translated by Elisa Amado. Hardcover from Groundwood Books.