The Night is Singing - Hardcover

Davies, Jacqueline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803730047 ISBN 13: 9780803730045

Publisher: Dial, 2006

Synopsis

All ready for bed, a little girl lingers, listening to the night’s enchanting music—birds flying, branches creaking, the radiator sighing, the evening singing.

With lilting rhythms and rhyming lines, this gracefully illustrated lullaby evokes that comfy-cozy time of night when sleep is still a blink away. Delightful and soothing, this book is a perfect addition to any bedtime ritual.

About this title

About the Author:

Jacqueline Davies lives in Massachusetts.

Kyrsten Brooker lives in Canada.

From Booklist:

PreS-K. This atmospheric bedtime book offers a quiet celebration of nighttime sounds. At dusk in a picturesque country village, a little girl preparing for bed identifies after-dark creaks, rustles, and rumbles as "lullabies" sung by the night. Lilting verse in a second-person voice ("Up you go / Tippy-toe") invites children inside cozy domestic scenes, as the rocking-chair rhythms and soothing words demystify scary unknowns: "Hear the hissing / Soft as kissing, / From the radiator grate. . . . The house is singing lullabies." The text lacks a true story line, but it conveys a vivid sense of cocooning safety, unpunctured even in the wake of a "crashing" thunderstorm, and Brooker's distinctive collage-and-paint illustrations effectively juxtapose the bright farmhouse interiors with the increasingly dramatic outdoor scenes. Some of the verse imagery, such as one line involving a pet cat "shadowboxing with your nose," may not speak to children, but kids who harbor bedtime anxieties will gain courage from the notion of a night filled with friendly, serenading presences. Jennifer Mattson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dial
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0803730047
• ISBN 13: 9780803730045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Brooker Kyrsten