While The World Is Sleeping - Hardcover

Duncan Edwards, Pamela; Edwards, Pamela Duncan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0545017564 ISBN 13: 9780545017565

Publisher: Orchard Books, 2010

Synopsis

Bestselling author and illustrator Pamela Duncan Edwards and illustrator Daniel Kirk take you on a flight across the night to see what happens in nature . . . while the world is sleeping.

Bestselling author and illustrator Pamela Duncan Edwards and illustrator Daniel Kirk take you on a flight across the night to see what happens in nature . . . while the world is sleeping.
Spend the the night on an exploration with foxes, porcupines, raccoons, fish, mice, and more as their day begins while the rest of the world is fast asleep. Fly across the night on a snow owl as you glide over meadows, lakes, forests, and rivers with only the moon to light the way.

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel Kirk is the author and/or illustrator of many children's books, including DINOSAUR, DINOSAUR, CHUGGA-CHUGGA CHOO-CHOO, LIBRARY MOUSE, DOGS RULE! and CAT POWER. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and three children.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-K—A huge, round-headed, furry-footed snowy owl peers into a young girl's window and invites her on a nighttime ride. ("Oh, what wondrous things we'll see/While the world is sleeping.") That line completes the lilting rhyme on each page, adding a lulling, comforting tone to the poetic text. Off the child and the owl fly, over frolicking fawns, swimming fish, playing rabbits, dam-building beavers, and other denizens of the night, returning home, at last, to sleep. The final painting shows the child stretching awake in her bed at sunrise. Kirk's bold gouache paintings fill every inch of each scene with eye-catching realistic detail, highlighted by the light of the full Moon. Many of the animals, especially the cat-faced fox; the sweet-faced porcupine clinging in childlike fashion to a tree branch; and the rounded, soft-furred, innocent-faced raccoon have a friendly, nonthreatening look about them. There is strong detail in leaves and shrubbery, pinecones, tree bark, animal fur, owl feathers, and porcupine quills. A reassuring bedtime poem, as well as a lovely introduction to nocturnal animals.—Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH
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About this edition

• Publisher: Orchard Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0545017564
• ISBN 13: 9780545017565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Kirk Daniel