Nighttime doesn't have to be scary! When Cat and Mouse stay out late to play， they have fun until it gets dark and they hear strange noises. But then they meet a new friend， Owl. "Don't be afraid，" he tells them. "It's a beautiful night." Cat and Mouse don't understand. How can it be beautiful when it's so dark and scary? So Owl invites them to reconsider night， from a vantage point at the top of his tree. In the third of his Cat and Mouse books， Tomek Bogacki -- whose fables for the very young have been likened to those of Leo Lionni -- confronts children's fear of the dark by showing them an alternative in his soothingly beautiful nighttime pictures. Nighttime doesn't have to be scary! When Cat and Mouse stay out late to play， they have fun until it gets dark and they hear strange noises. But then they meet a new friend， Owl. "Don't be afraid，" he tells them. "It's a beautiful night." Cat and Mouse don't understand. How can it be beautiful when it's so dark and scary? So Owl invites them to reconsider night， from a vantage point at the top of his tree. In the third of his Cat and Mouse books， Tomek Bogacki -- whose fables for the very young have been likened to those ...