Night Watching by Tracy Sierra (Hardcover) brooch Manguel’s favorite characters include Jim

Manguel’s favorite characters include Jim from Huckleberry Finn

We nearly died

the Golden Age of Illustration

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970

She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise

Night Watching by Tracy Sierra (Hardcover) brooch Manguel’s favorite characters include JimA footstep on the stairs. A second to react. What happens next will determine everything. Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noiseold houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: its the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs. She sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway, shrouded