Eugene Fields Wynken Blynken and Nod - Hardcover

Berg, Ron; Field, Eugene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0590715976 ISBN 13: 9780590715973

Publisher: Scholastic Book Service, 1985

Synopsis

For over one hundred years, children have been lulled to sleep by Eugene Field's lilting lyrics recounting the voyage of Wynken, Blynken and Nod, who set off in a wooden shoe to sail "on a river of crystal light, into a sea of dew."
Johanna Westerman sets her picture book interpretation of this beloved bedtime poem in a moonlit Dutch landscape. Her fisherman, three children dressed in nightclothes and their fey little cat, navigate a sturdy sabot across the starry sky on what is indeed - "all so pretty a sail."
The artist's muted palette captures the night's special luminosity, producing illustrations that are as soothing to the eyes as Field's verses are to the ears. The result is a bedtime book that will send little ones off to pleasant dreams of the "wonderful sights that be."

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Book Service
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590715976
• ISBN 13: 9780590715973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 22