'The Shadow' is a wordless picture book by Donna Diamond. Such an interesting book. When it comes to wordless books, the author/illustrator has to rely on invoking emotions from the reader(viewer for wordless?) The story focuses on a little girl returning home alone. From the very start you see a dark shadow with glowing yellow eyes. In every page spread the threatening shadow is attached to the girl. After the girl is finished drawing she see her shadow and becomes frightened! Every time she moves the shadow with glowing eyes follows her. It taunts her by mimicking everything the girl does. Fed up, the girl becomes frustrated with the dark shadow scaring her and fixes the bright light bulb on a wall in her room. The dark shadow is no more. The story is very well done with its artwork. Every page spread has a sort of fish eye lens look as the view point seems as if their is an eerie spectator following the girls life. With no other characters being around you get a lonely feeling reading the story. I began to become scared with the book opened. The shadow is very scary to look in its eyes. When the girl realizes how scary the shadow looks and places her arms up, the shadow mimics her fingers, but distorting them into claws to add a fearsome look to it. The detail in the story beyond these to characters is interesting as well. The girl is seen drawing scary creatures before she discovers the scar looking shadow.This tells me these were thoughts on her mind and took form as the scary shadow. This continues in the story as you can see two dolls sitting on the girl's shelf in her room start smiling and are seen cheering as the conquers her fears of being afraid of her shadow. An amazingly illustrated story by Diamond in its art, story, tone and moral. ( )

The Shadow is a wordless book about a little girl that discovers her shadow. The girl moves around her room watching her shadow follow her. It looks like a scary ghost, but she realizes that it's just her shadow in the light.

The artwork is beautiful and makes the story so lively, even without words. I especially love the last picture.

This book is illustrated beautifully. There is so much expression in the way the little girl looks as well as her body language. The pictures are very realistic except for the shadow. The shadow's scary looking eyes are so much so that I was hesitant to show it to my four year old son. I think that this book would be good for students about 8 and older. This book could be used to talk about body language as well as the use of imagination in things such as shadows and clouds.

This book is about a little girl who is afraid of her shadow, which can relate to many children since they too are often afraid of their own shadows if not someone elses. The little girl is unaware that he shadow is creeping up behind her. Then she turns on a bright light and her shadow disapears and she is able to go to sleep. ( )

This is a book about a little girl who feels that she is being followed by a scary shadow. Often the shadow simply looks as if it is hers but sometimes it really does look menacing. She continues to be followed by this shadow until she turns on a bright light and it disappears. She is now able to fall asleep and while she is sleeping we see the menacing shape again under her bed.
This is a cute story and fun to interpret on our own since it does not have words. The illustrations are very well done and the little girl's facial expression are fantastic. I like the way the image is a little distorted. It makes the picture look surreal and creepy, almost like a dream. All of these aspects convey a sense of mystery. I think it would be interesting to let children make up their own story to these images and see what they come up with. ( )