Among the Night People

This collection began as a gift to children afraid of the dark. Pierson transforms nighttime fear into wonder by revealing the secret lives of creatures that come alive after sunset. Raccoons scheme and play, skunks go about their mysterious business, fireflies signal across meadows, and weasels hunt in moonlit fields. Each story grants voice to the voiceless, letting readers imagine what raccoons might say to each other as they wash their food by starlight, or how a Speckled Hen might feel about raising different chicks. The prose carries the gentle authority of a storyteller who knows her natural world, weaving actual animal behaviors into narratives that comfort rather than frighten. These are stories that invite children to see darkness not as empty or scary, but as a world teeming with life, purpose, and quiet adventure. More than a century later, they endure because they accomplish something remarkable: they make the night friendly.