Clever, short poems about being afraid - of spiders, of scary books, of things that go bunp, of going to school, of storms. Ways of coping include singing silly songs and pretending to be fearless. Other people can be frightened too - dad of roller coasters, mum of flying - and the reassuring ending tells us 'as I grow older I'm sure to get bolder'. Gordon's expressive, comic-style pictures add greatly to the general atmosphere of fear combined with fun.