A peek inside
A picture book by Morwen Tresidder COMING
Dusk catches Kit on the moor path, and a soft light bobs ahead of him — always just far enough. It leads him past the bog, past the old shaft, to the top of the lane. When Davy comes looking, the light is gone.
Kit has stayed too long at Nancarrow farm, and the moor path home is slipping into dusk. Ahead of him, a soft light bobs in the dimness — never close enough to catch, yet never leaving him behind. Past bog and old shaft, the way feels suddenly large and strange, while the village lights of Polperran wait below with all the warmth of home.
For four- to seven-year-olds, this is a deliciously shivery read-aloud: gentle peril, clear signposts, and a mystery that glows rather than frightens. Morwen Tresidder’s picture-book storytelling leaves room for children to wonder, whisper, and look again at the page. Kit’s small bravery, Davy’s care, and the teasing possibility of Jack o’ the Lantern make a bedtime-friendly adventure with just enough goosebumps.
In the Polperran Tales picture books, readers meet the village at a child’s eye level — lanes, farms, moor edges, and older voices full of local sayings. Kit and the Light on the Moor adds a luminous thread of Cornish folklore to the shared Polperran world, where each age-banded series lets children grow up alongside the same harbour village, its families, and its half-told mysteries.