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Here's
what critics and readers say about....THE
NIGHT IS LIKE AN ANIMAL
A
New York Times'
"Outstanding Book of the Year"
A Junior Library Guild Selection
A Children's Book-of-the-Month Club Selection
Recommended in The
New Yorker and American
Baby
Peaceable Kingdom Press (Greeting cards) Selection
Publisher's
Weekly writes:
"Using
simile and metaphor, Whitman personifies the night - often a dark
and scary time for kids - as an amiable, bear-like creature ... the poem
brims with colorful images that comfort and soothe. .. the cover of
darkness here is as warm and welcome as a favorite blanket."
Katherine
from New Hampshire:
What
threat or fear could emanate from a Night whose "happy
sigh...starts the evening breezes and blows the moon up high"? In
this gentle, rhyming story, Night comes on large, furry paws and moves
slowly through a landscape both earthly and heavenly. . This is a book
that could easily become part of a child's happy bedtime routine, like
cuddling a Teddy or stroking a cheek with a blanket.
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