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.