Night Songs - Hardcover

Miranda, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0027672506 ISBN 13: 9780027672503

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1993

Synopsis

Describes the many different sounds of nighttime

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Miranda is an American author and illustrator living in Madrid, Spain. She has written many educational and trade books for children including: Baby Talk: An American Bookseller's Pick of the Lists (1987);Night Songs: Bank Street College Children's Book of the Year, Society of Illustrators Show 1993; To Market, To Market: Abby Honor Book, ALA Notable Children's Book, Golden Kite Honor Book for Illustrations, Flicker Tale Nominee (ND) 1997; and Beep Beep: Parents' Choice Gold Award 1999. Anne also collaborated with Caldecott Award-winning illustrator Ed Emberley on Glad Monster, Sad Monster, which has been translated into Spanish and French.

From Publishers Weekly:

At "moontime," a mother asks her child to "lie still. / Listen" for the "night songs." Beginning with the sounds of the countryside, where "crickets chirp / their scratchy meadow melody," the poem describes a storm on the prairie, the "chatter, / claw, / and squeak / deep in the forest," the "raucous tune" of the city, the "tingling bells" that "croon a love song / to gulls / listening in the harbor," the coconut palms that "conduct / the island's solo," and finally returns to the child's house where the baby, "warm breath sighing softly . . . drifts into dreams." Miranda's vibrant and varied ink and paper collages are beautifully designed, with complicated textures and vivid colors; and the lyrical language combines fresh imagery with lullaby rhythms that soothe and comfort. Nonetheless, the abstract illustrations and verbiage may sometimes perplex the preschoolers for whom the book is intended, as when the coyotes in the desert seem pasted atop textured mountains as their "haunting lyrics echo in the canyon." Ages 1-6.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0027672506
• ISBN 13: 9780027672503
• Binding: Hardcover