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    At Night

    By Jonathan Bean

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    On some nights, a snug bedroom is a hard place to fall asleep. On some nights, it's better to get away from slumbering, snoring family members and curl up alone with one's thoughts in the cool night air, under wide-open skies. In this charming bedtime fantasy, a sleepless city girl does just that, finding her surprising way to a serene rooftop version of a backyard campout.

    With captivating ink-and-watercolor illustrations and a simple, lyrical text, newcomer Jonathan Bean has created a soothing bedtime story that is sure to charm children and parents alike.

    At Night is the winner of the 2008 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Books.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 27, 2016
    ISBN9781466896468
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    At Night
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    Jonathan Bean

    Jonathan Bean's illustrations and writings have received widespread recognition. He has won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award twice, for At Night and Building Our House.  

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    • 3/5
      This is a good example of realistic fiction because it is something that could actually happen. The main character cannot sleep until she goes up to her roof garden and thinks about the world around her.Age Appropriateness: Primary
    • 4/5
      This is a good book of realistic fiction, because the plot could happen to someone in the real life. A girl at night couldn't fall into sleep and waited her whole family went to sleep, she decided to move her pillows and sheet to the roof where she could enjoy the whole world. The wind breezed her and she quickly fell into sleep while her mother was sitting next to her. Genre: Realistic Fiction.Age: PrimaryMedia: Gouache, Oil Pens.
    • 5/5
      A little girl can't steep, while the rest of the house slumbers peacefully. She gets out of bed and follows a breeze from her window up the stairs and onto the roof overlooking a crowded city chock-a-block with buildings (New York?). The outside breeze, stars and scenery relax her. So, she takes her pillow and blanket, makes herself a bed and falls asleep. In the last scene her mother sits next to her in middle of the night, steaming mug in hand, gazing at sky.It's simple story with soft detailed illustration and few carefully chosen words. My 4-year-old can easily follow along and likes it, but not as much as I do. That last picture in particular is just wonderful, and somehow captures so much about parenthood. I first got this from library and later bought it for my children. But, really, I got it more for me than for them.
    • 4/5
      "At Night By: Jonathan Bean received the "Globe-Horn Picture Book Award " for 2009/2010. The first thing that I loved about this book was the fact that the author dedicated it to his mother. The next thing I loved was the size of the book. he book is very small and non-intimidating for beginning readers. There are big squares with illustartions and clear, concise text on the bottom. As a visual learner, I really liked how this book was set up. Also, the author (Jonathan Bean) is also the talented illustrator. Bean graduated with an M.F.A in Visual Arts and it is very apparent in his creative and stylish illustrations. Having said all of the things I loved about the book, I was dissapointed with it's weak storyline. Nothing exciting happens in the story and I think a young reader may be dissapointed in this.
    • 5/5
      Bean's pictures are so satisfying to look at. There isn't an overabundance of detail, but there is still lots to look at. This family lives in an old apartment building in the city. It's got a flat roof like many others in the neighborhood and the roofs have been claimed as living space. Dining areas, lounge chairs, potted plants and laundry lines. And an exceptional view of the cityline and the river.Thank you Mr. Bean, much appreciated.
    • 3/5
      Summary: A young girl lays awake in her room at night, as she listens to her mother, father, sister, and breathing quietly breathing. A black cat slips through her windowsill, and the young girl follows the cat up the stairs and out onto the rooftop. She follows the cat with pillows and blankets, and makes a bed for herself on the rooftop where she "thought about the wide world." She fell asleep peacefully.The central message of this book is to use your imagination and appreciate the world around you. I do enjoy the illustrations in this book, as they consume the entire page, although I do not like how their is not much detail in the text. It was very straight forward. I like how the mother followed the child (in the illustrations) as her child went up stairs and onto the rooftop, and I also like how it didn't blatantly say this in the text. This enforces the children to pay close attention to detail.
    • 3/5
      Four stars for the lovely artwork, which was the little picture book's strong point. Text/story was so-so, so it's demoted to three stars. Tells of a little girl who can't sleep and goes to the roof of her home where she's able to finally get some sleep. Well, we've all been there.
    • 4/5
      A soothing bedtime story which is best-suited to lap reading or small audience reading thanks to its small, square size. The illustrations tell a large part of the story here with even the dust jacket and title page getting in on the action. The text is minimal, but carefully selected and well paced. The design of the illustrations is subtle but powerful. Pictures of the roof are double page full-bleed spreads giving a sense of the feeling of space and air to be found up high in a city. The illustrations inside the home are sometimes framed with white space with text below and sometimes are a full-bleed page with text on the alternate page. The spread with a close-up of the little girl across from a page holding the single word "AWAKE" gives a clear sense of the little girl's restlessness and lack of comfort in her bed. The color palette is cool blues and greens mixed with warm brown for the walls of the building. Extra bits of the story can be found in the illustrations as we see the little girl's mother wake to follow her child quietly to the roof and children will have fun locating the family cat in several of the spreads. Quiet but charming, overall.
    • 3/5
      Late one night a young girl lies awake in her bed in a city apartment. Listening to the soft breathing of her parents and siblings, she cannot get to sleep herself. Then, feeling a cool breeze from the window, she takes her pillow and blanket up to the roof and finally slips off to sleep under the night sky.This debut title from picture-book author/artist Jonathan Bean, whose subsequent autobiographical stories - Building Our House, This Is My House, This Is My School - were so engaging, offers a sweet reassurance tale to youngsters who may themselves have trouble sleeping from time to time. The text here is spare but effective, and the artwork lovely. I liked that the little girl's mother is aware of her daughter's trip to the roof, and is watchful and alert, allowing her little girl to have her independence, but also ready to protect her if needed - and that all of this is communicated through the artwork alone. Recommended to anyone looking for new bedtime books, or for reassurance stories that depict children solving their own problems, while parents stand ready to offer aid if needed.
    • 4/5
      The illustrations are beautiful. My son and I liked it so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!