Rascal's Shadow

Rascal's Shadow is the fifteenth book in Paul Jennings' popular early chapter book series, featuring dragons who live like pets in a seemingly normal world. This installment focuses on Rascal's fear of shadows, a fear shared by all the dragons. Through a simple yet empowering narrative, Rascal discovers a method to conquer his apprehension, which in turn helps his fellow dragons. The text is specifically designed for beginner readers, utilizing repetition, phonically regular words, and meaning-building to enhance readability. It's an excellent choice for parents looking to introduce their children to independent reading while also addressing common childhood fears like the dark or shadows. The book offers a gentle, whimsical approach to building self-confidence and bravery.

In this fifteenth book of the series Rascal is scared of a scary shadow. All the dragons are scared of scary shadows! But Rascal finds a way to let the light in. In Ben's world, dragons exist like dogs and fulfil all the doggy functions with dragon overlays like having two heads or being able to fly and breathe fire. These peculiarities go unremarked. Everything else in the world is normal (or as normal as Paul Jennings ever gets, let's face it). The text makes use of repetition, phonically regular words and building on meaning to aid ease of reading in these early chapter books. NB Paul Jennings discusses how to use the Rascal books with beginner readers in his guide for parents: The Reading Bug ...... and How You Can Help Your Child to Catch It Read a Rascal story to your children and before long they'll read it to you.