What I think THE TERRIBLE THING is a person. the reson i think that it might be a person is because, shot guns spay bebes in every direction like it said in the book " it was like a net". I think that the illastrations are alittle gloomy. The pictures of the terrible things are kind of like the pictures of "scary stories to tell the dark" one, two, and three. I think they are the same artists. All the pictures are black and white. I think that the moral of the book is to stick together and work as a team. I think the illustrations make me feel sad because its so gloomy.