Stories of the Night
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Stories of the Night by Kitty Crowther
Tell me three goodnight stories, please, please, says Little Bear. Three!? says her mother. YesI gave you three good night kisses! First, Little Bear hears the story of the Night Guardian, who lives in the woods and makes sure all the animals go to bed. But who tells the Night Guardian when its bedtime? The second story is about the brave girl Zhora, who seeks the forests most delicious blackberries. In the third we meet Bo, the little man with the big overcoat, who finds it hard to sleep. Finally, Little Bear falls asleep, and there in bed beside her are her new storybook friends.
"A quirky charmer of a bedtime bookThe eponymous stories are not books read to a child--rather, Crowther's Mother Bear tells Little Bear three stories orally. It's clear this is a familiar routine in their cozy home in the woods, since Little Bear asks for each story with descriptions that indicate familiarity: 'The one that says it's time to go to sleep, ' and 'The little girl with a sword who gets lost, ' and 'The one with the man in a big coat who never sleeps!' Mother Bear indulges each request, and the accompanying illustrations shift from depictions of the two of them in Little Bear's room to ones that present each story's world. While the palette is remarkably distinct, with a bright pink dominating the cover and highlighting interior spreads, the art style has a subtle, fantastic feel to it, as if it stepped out of Tove Jansson's work--or as if a Moomin could easily step into them. At the book's end, Little Bear imagines all the story characters coming to cuddle up in bed, and then Mother Bear goes to sit by the fire. In this closing spread she holds a book, its cover illustrated with those same characters, offering the reader a cozy metafictive conclusion. A visually distinct, original, pleasing bedtime book that has the feel of a classic."--starred, Kirkus Reviews --Journal
Kitty Crowther is an Astrid Lindgren Award-winning author based in Belgium. Kitty Crowther is an Astrid Lindgren Award-winning author based in Belgium.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781776571970 |
| ISBN 10 | 1776571975 |
| Title | Stories of the Night |
| Author | Kitty Crowther |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Gecko Press |
| Year published | 2018-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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