Night Shadows

Each night kids have been creeping around and spray painting houses in Tasha's neighbourhood. Two days in a row, her neighbour Mrs. Lucy awakes to find graffiti outside her home. Tasha helps her paint over it. They discover that they are alike, except for their age, and become inseparable. But who keeps defacing Mrs. Lucy's house? Ed Young's art sensitively conveys the characters' emotions and the drama of the story: as the truth is discovered, the houses become multicoloured, but the characters remain faceless. Then when the miscreants are revealed, Tasha's and Mrs. Lucy's faces become visible. A subtle expression of recognition on both....