Lights at Night
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- $199.00
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- $199.00
Descripción editorial
In this bedtime picture book, join two special families on an illuminating journey through the year and seasons as they explore all the different lights we see at night.
It is dark . . . until street lamps turn on, one, two, three. Red light, green light, yellow light — then, suddenly, lightning strikes! Our porch light guides us home, and while we sleep, the stars of the spring sky emerge, along with new babies, their faces lit by the night. In summer, our faces shine in the campfire light while fireworks burst above us. In autumn, we shiver and cheer under the towering lights of the football field and trick-or-treat on paths lit by the flickering smiles of pumpkins. And in winter, candles and holiday lights gleam but are dwarfed by the majesty of the aurora.
This sweet, beautifully illustrated picture book, a perfect pick for introducing the seasons and seasonal activities and events, explores the simple joys we experience throughout the year when we share them with those we love.
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Following an East Asian–cued family, Hilderman's evocative first-person-plural prose and Zeng's painterly digital artwork characterize the four seasons via emblematic "lights at night" in this satisfying springtide-to-wintertide tour. Amid a spring rainstorm in which "lightning cracks and electrifies the night," the subjects race home, then read by flashlight when the power goes out. Summer brings a campfire "sending sparks like fireflies," while autumn involves a Halloween jaunt in which "we crack glow sticks." Throughout, a fox and its growing cubs shadow their human counterparts—lapping at lake water that simultaneously reflects summertime fireworks, and later seeming to leap from a wintertime northern lights display, before their "eyeshine" is caught in the family's vehicle headlights during a drive through snow flurries. Highlighted with the help of page-filling art and poetic lines, night lights offer an ideal and innovative angle onto the pleasures of a northern clime's seasons. Background characters are portrayed with various abilities and skin tones. Ages 3–7.
