What a delight it is! Three bedtime stories fill
the contents. Created with make-up, the stunning electric pink colour used on the
cover appears throughout the book.
Being
the colour of universal love, it accents the feminine, and the tender emotions
evident between mother and child.
Very much in the fairytale style of telling and
illustration, it’s about Little Bear’s request for three stories. She says please three times to her mother so she
gets her wish. The stories she hears are ones that have been told to her
before, but each retelling is like hearing them for the first time.
The first story is about the Night Guardian that
puts all living things to sleep each night with her gong. But who puts the
Night Guardian to sleep?
In the second we hear about Zhora, a little girl pirate
with a sword who goes in search of blackberries and gets lost. Luckily she
meets up with the bat Jacko Mollo and finds a peaceful place to rest for the
night.
With the third tale, Little Bear is told is about a
man named Bo that wears a big coat and never sleeps. Bo goes in search of his
friend Otto the otter and finds a solution to his sleep problem.
This is an ideal book for preparing children for
sleep, with its tender references and delicate synthesis of text and
illustration.
Title:
Stories of the Night
Author/Illustrator:
Kitty Crowther
Publisher:
Gecko Press, $27.99
Publication
Date: September 2018
Format:
Hardcover
ISBN:
9781776571970
For
ages: 5 - 7
Type: Junior Fiction
