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In the Night Garden

Written and illustrated by Carin Berger
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Holiday House Imprint Neal Porter Books ISBN

9780823449866

In the Night Garden

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A gentle, collage-illustrated bedtime read about the often mysterious and always beautiful experiences to be found in nighttime spaces.



In the night garden fireflies look like fallen stars.

Moonflowers unfurl and release their intoxicating perfume.



In the night garden you can lie

on the cool grass and look up to the

millions and trillions of stars…




In the night garden, nothing is as it seems and everything is made new. Blinking stars and pale moonlight might reveal a lone cat tiptoeing across a roof, luminous flowers unfurling in the cool air, a mama fox escorting her sleepy cubs home. Listen closely and you might hear the wind blowing through the trees, the murmur of a slow stream, or the gentle song of crickets and bullfrogs, lulling you to sleep.



Carin Berger is the award-winning author of The Little Yellow Leaf, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. With soothing words and spectacularly detailed, hand-cut collage artwork, she has fashioned a bedtime book like no other. Curious readers will be rewarded when they look for the mysterious cat that appears on every page!



Full-color illustrations were created as cut paper collages. Each piece was made by hand with found ephemera, and scraps of paper, including ticket stubs, receipts, and ancient ledger books.
 
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Praise & Reviews

School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 3-For children who wonder what happens in the garden at night, here is a gorgeously illustrated book for story hours. Berger takes readers on a shadowy adventure through the mysteries, where fireflies light up the darkness, a cat tiptoes across the roof, a family of foxes plays along the edges, and every scene is delightfully illustrated using cut-paper collage. The text is lyrically written with high level vocabulary but short sentences to keep even the youngest readers engaged. The artwork is very detailed; some of the paper has printed words, offering readers a chance to guess what the paper may have been in its previous use. This is a charming book that could be used as a bedtime story, but also as a lesson for being open to what is not yet understood. Pair this with Monica Wellington's Night City or Night Rabbits for more benevolent books about the night. VERDICT Readers will want to return to this beautiful picture book over and over again. A first purchase.-Debbie Tannerα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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