A shortcut through the forest to Grandma's house produces some eerie moments
- & some oddly familiar characters
- in a strikingly illustrated tale about facing fears One night a boy is woken by a terrible sound A storm is breaking lightning flashing across the sky In the morning Dad is gone & Mum doesn't seem to know when he'll be back The next day Mum asks her son to take a cake to his sick grandma " Don't go into the forest" she warns " Go the long way round" But for the first time the boy chooses to take the path into the forest where he meets a variety of fairy tale characters