A gentle, collage-illustrated bedtime read about the often mysterious
and always beautiful experiences to be found in nighttime spaces.
In the night garden fireflies look like fallen stars.
Moonflowers unfurl and release their intoxicating perfume.
In the night garden you can lie
on the cool grass and look up to the
millions and trillions of stars...
In the night garden, nothing is as it seems and everything is made new.
Blinking stars and pale moonlight might reveal a lone cat tiptoeing
across a roof, luminous flowers unfurling in the cool air, a mama fox
escorting her sleepy cubs home. Listen closely and you might hear the
wind blowing through the trees, the murmur of a slow stream, or the
gentle song of crickets and bullfrogs, lulling you to sleep.
Carin Berger is the award-winning author of The Little Yellow Leaf, a
New York Times Best Illustrated Book. With soothing words and
spectacularly detailed, hand-cut collage artwork, she has fashioned a
bedtime book like no other. Curious readers will be rewarded when they
look for the mysterious cat that appears on every page!
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection