Sarah The Magnificent

Sarah the Magnificent is an epic children's bedtime story of a young girl and boy who conquer a fear of the dark through "imaginary" battles with a horde of terrifying shadow beasts. This story conveys morals through finding your bravery and inner strength and helps younger children feel confident in overcoming their fear of the dark.

Sarah the Magnificent is told in free verse with rhyming couplets to give it a unique cadence and uses a rich, descriptive vocabulary. It is a complex yet accessible text that can be used in homes and classrooms to teach various reading comprehension strategies, such as inferencing, visualizing, and contextual decoding of unfamiliar vocabulary. Young writers and teachers can use this story as a mentor text for descriptive language.

Sarah the Magnificent takes place in a young boy's bedroom where a frightening shadow monster is ready for some fright. Sarah appears and helps the boy battle the shadows through his house and elevates his confidence by demonstrating that true bravery comes from within. At the end, when the boy is again alone, he uses the lesson Sarah taught him by letting his inner light shine and banishing the monsters on his own.