Bel Mooney has written a very successful, enjoyable and much loved series of brilliant books – they are the books about Kitty! This is the seventh one in it and before it is ‘But You Promised!’, ‘I KNOW!’, ‘IT’S NOT FAIR!’, ‘I DON’T WANT TO!’, ‘I CAN’T FIND IT!’ and finally last but not least ‘WHY NOT?’. They are all about a little girl who is up to no good most of the time and in this book she is frightened. Kitty is terrified of the dark and her new teacher but some other people are also afraid of certain things: things like not being liked, or being in front of a lot of people…