Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant, Mary Szilagyi (Illustrator)
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(Paperback - Reprint)
- Age Range: 3 to 6
- Pub. Date: March 1991
- 32pp
- Sales Rank: 8,568
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Product Details
- ISBN-13: 9780689714733
- ISBN: 0689714734
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
There is no night so dark, so black as night in the country. And while the people dream of daytime things, the nighttime world awakens. Owls swoop, a rabbit patters, and in the yard an apple falls — pump! — from the tree.
Listen. Go to the window. Across the field a light glows. Who else is up so late? Who else watches and hears the sights and sounds of night in the country — the many stirrings of silence, the many colors of the dark?
Lyrical text and velvety pictures present a very different kind of nighttime: a mysterious, moving night that will lull small children to sleep.
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Text and illustrations describe the sights and sounds of nighttime in the country.
Publishers Weekly
PW praised the ``exceptionally beautiful illustrations'' of this ``remarkable picture book that sweeps the reader into the quiet, special world of a country night.'' Ages 4-7. (Mar.)
More Reviews and RecommendationsBiography
Cynthia Rylant is the author of numerous distinguished novels and picture books for young readers. In addition to her beginning-reader series: Henry and Mudge, Poppleton, and Mr. Putter and Tabby, as well as her Cobble Street Cousins early-chapter series, she is also the author of the Newbery Medal-winning Missing May, the Newbery Honor Book A Fine White Dust, and two Caldecott Honor-winning picture books.
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Just like when I was a kidby Anonymous
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June 18, 2007: I read this to my son and add-libbed many other things that happened to me when I was a boy at my grandparents' country house. This is a very good book about places all over the U.S. that are slowly but surely, and sadly, disappearing.
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