Fear of Dark: Resource List

Books for Children

Ages 0 to 3

• Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?; by Martin Waddell; Candlewick, 1992
• Grandfather Twilight; by Barbara Berger; Philomel, Books, 2000
• The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark; by Jill Tomlinson; Candlewick Press, 2001

Ages 2 to 6

• Sweet Dreams: A Lift-The-Flap Bedtime Story; by Sue Porter; DK Publishing/distributed by Houghton Mifflin, 1996
• The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree; by Stan and Jan Berenstain; Random, 1978

Ages 4 to 8

• Can't Sleep; by Christopher Raschka; Orchard Books, 1999
• Creepy Things are Scaring Me!; by Jerome Pumphrey; HarperCollins, 2003
• I'm Safe! From Monsters!; by Wendy Gordon; Backyard Books, 1999
• Switch on the Night; by Ray Bardbury; Knopf, 1993
• My Own Big Bed; Anna Hines; Greenwillow Books, 1998
• There's a Nightmare in My Closet; by Mercer Mayer; Dial Books, 1968
• Buttermilk; by Stephen Cosgrove; Econo-Clad Books, 1999
• Big, Scary Wolf; by Harvey Stevenson; Clarion Books, 1997
• Go Away, Big Green Monster!; by Ed Emberley; Little, Brown, 1992
• Pooh's Bad Dream; by Kathleen W. Zoehfeld, Robin Cuddy (illustrator); Disney Press, 1998
• Teddy Bear Tears; by Jim Aylesworth, Jo Ellen McAllister-Stammen (illustrator); Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1997
• Tom's Afraid of the Dark!; by Beth Robbins; Dorling Kindersley, 2001
• Monsters in Your Bed - Monsters in Your Head; by Betsy Dill; DreamDog Press, 1999
• The Monster in the Third Dresser Drawer; by Janice Lee Smith; Econo-Clad Books, 1999

Ages 9 to 12

• Sixth Grade Sleepover; by Eve Bunting; Scholastic, 1996

Books for Adults

• No More Monsters in the Closet: Teaching Your Children to Overcome Everyday Fears and Phobias; by Jeffrey L. Brown, M.D.; Crown Pub, 1995