By Barbara Delosta, Illustrated by Ed Young (Little, Brown and Company – 2012)        

At dark night , a Ninja is sneaking through a silent house. By using Japanese traditional art paper for the collage illustrations and very few and short text, this Ninja seems to perform his mission seriously and professionally. And then just before few pages to the end, the lights flip on and his mother catches him, ice cream and spoon in his monads. His mother gives him a new mission which is “getting back into bed.”

暗い夜中に、一人の忍者が忍び出て静かな室内に侵入し、物色を始めた。日本の伝統的な芸術性高い紙を使った張り絵のイラストに、文字は少なく短くて、この忍者が慎重かつプロフェッショナルに任務を遂行している様子が伝わる。ところが最後の数ページ手前で、突然電気がつけられ、アイスクリームとスプーンを手に持ったままの少年は母親に見つけられてしまった。そして彼の母親からの新たな任務は、ベットに戻ることであった。