Shadows rebel and run free, finding themselves mismatched--palmtree-shadows with joggers, camel-shadows with icebergs, frog-shadows with skiers--until, longing for their familiar forms, they return home.

An incident on Groundhog Day reveals the true relationship between Mario the groundhog and his shadow.

Chaos descends on Shadowland when the watchman leaves his post to join a little match girl on a snowy street in the real world.

"When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place--its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. There, she meets a local boy named Ismael, and the two soon fall in love. But a dark mystery is about to unfold, involving a reclusive toymaker who lives in a gigantic mansion filled with mechanical beings and shadows of the past"--

Vinny Salvo's shadow has grown horns, claws, and big sharp teeth. And now it is coming after him.

Shadows are alive, climbing, spinning, swooping, and stretching with everything around them during the bright sunny day but when night falls...the shadows disappear.

"On the night of her thirteen birthday, Lucia Frank's shadow half slips out and begins to act in ways that Lucia has always wanted but been afraid to do. Now Lucia is becoming the girl she's always wanted to be -- fearless and assertive -- but is there another cost to bear?"--

"Seventeen original stories that take place in the absence of light."--Provided by publisher.

Vinnie Salvo is being terrorized by a shadow monster that has horns, claws, and big sharp teeth, but his mom and dad refuse to believe his story, even when the monster sucks all the energy right out of Vinnie's body.

A brother and sister watch the sunrise and sunset in the country and at bedtime they learn about the earth's rotation.