Scan barcode
rampaginglibrarian's review
5.0
Just when you thought i might have gone and tried to grow up on ya'all i have another wonderful picture book recommendation for everyone to check out: Little Night by Pura Belpre Award winning author and artist Yuyi Morales. Little Night begins at the end of the long day as
Mother Sky fills a tub with falling stars and calls, "Bath time for Little Night!"
Little Night answers from afar, "Can't come, I am hiding and you have to find me, Mama. Find me now!"
"Hmmm," Mother Sky looks down a rabbit hole. She puts her cheek on the darkest sand. When she peeks behind the hills, whom does she see?
After finding her, Mother Sky bathes her and unfolds her dress crocheted of clouds but again Little Night runs away to hide. Looking behind trees and in bat caves, after dinner and all through the night mother and child play their games. Ravens, blueberries, fireflies, moths and stars all figure into this bedtime story which is truly playtime for Little Night. Illustrated with Morales's lovely, and vibrant paintings in deep shades of blues, reds, mauves, and indigos makes this the perfect evening tale.
Mother Sky fills a tub with falling stars and calls, "Bath time for Little Night!"
Little Night answers from afar, "Can't come, I am hiding and you have to find me, Mama. Find me now!"
"Hmmm," Mother Sky looks down a rabbit hole. She puts her cheek on the darkest sand. When she peeks behind the hills, whom does she see?
After finding her, Mother Sky bathes her and unfolds her dress crocheted of clouds but again Little Night runs away to hide. Looking behind trees and in bat caves, after dinner and all through the night mother and child play their games. Ravens, blueberries, fireflies, moths and stars all figure into this bedtime story which is truly playtime for Little Night. Illustrated with Morales's lovely, and vibrant paintings in deep shades of blues, reds, mauves, and indigos makes this the perfect evening tale.
megatsunami's review
4.0
Gorgeous illustrations and a sweet story about Little Night playing hide-and-seek with Mother Sky.
crystal_reading's review
5.0
The illustrations are rich and gorgeous. The text is playful and fantastical. It is the story of mother sky preparing her child little night for nighttime. It's a beautiful story that brings a smile to my face.
carriepond's review
5.0
Sweet story, and the illustrations are BEAUTIFUL. Love that the book has English and Spanish.
mikhaela_reid's review
5.0
My 3-year-old loves Yuyi Morales -- she is his favorite author of fiction books, and this one did not disappoint!
dgillsp's review
5.0
A beautiful story with gorgeous illustrations. A great good-night story for my 3 year old.
leslie_d's review
3.0
Yuyi Morales plays with the getting-ready-for-bed story as Mother Sky tries to coax Little Night into a bathtub of stars. The sun sets, and the sky cools and darkens Mother Sky’s skirts as she bathes and dresses a child more interested in playing hide-and-seek.
Little Night hides in places wherein night would blend, with animals and hues like a little night. The color scheme moves from warm sunset reds, oranges, pinks to cooling and harder-surfaced reds to deepening into purples and blues. The evidence of brushwork is broad and sweeping, lending to the expansive quality of a tale set in the sky.
It is lovely to consider how the greatness of the sky and the night participate in each relatively small beings of the reader. Little Night appears both human child-size and large in the scale of villages, but Mother Sky is always large, but not looming on the page. The definitive thematic images are of Mother Sky’s domestic chores, seeking Little Night, and her holding Little Night on her lap. She is a comforting, caring presence. She’s also rendered quite beautiful.
Little Night is impish, and the whole interplay between Mother and Night is very sweet. It is also magical (shocking, I know), but the “dress crotched from clouds” is perfect, and that the “hair pins are stars,” named as they are placed in Little Night’s hair.
Little Night is probably an obvious choice for bedtime, and it is indeed one to nestle in with, but Little Night is not the only impish figure. The author isn’t putting Little Night to bed—it’s nighttime, it’s time for the child to be waking, to be bathed and dressed, fed and groomed, and given the moon as a ball with which to run out and play.
Of course we all have times for sleeping and times for running wild and in sport. Little Night is for both of those times.
~L (omphaloskepsis)
Little Night hides in places wherein night would blend, with animals and hues like a little night. The color scheme moves from warm sunset reds, oranges, pinks to cooling and harder-surfaced reds to deepening into purples and blues. The evidence of brushwork is broad and sweeping, lending to the expansive quality of a tale set in the sky.
It is lovely to consider how the greatness of the sky and the night participate in each relatively small beings of the reader. Little Night appears both human child-size and large in the scale of villages, but Mother Sky is always large, but not looming on the page. The definitive thematic images are of Mother Sky’s domestic chores, seeking Little Night, and her holding Little Night on her lap. She is a comforting, caring presence. She’s also rendered quite beautiful.
Little Night is impish, and the whole interplay between Mother and Night is very sweet. It is also magical (shocking, I know), but the “dress crotched from clouds” is perfect, and that the “hair pins are stars,” named as they are placed in Little Night’s hair.
Little Night is probably an obvious choice for bedtime, and it is indeed one to nestle in with, but Little Night is not the only impish figure. The author isn’t putting Little Night to bed—it’s nighttime, it’s time for the child to be waking, to be bathed and dressed, fed and groomed, and given the moon as a ball with which to run out and play.
Of course we all have times for sleeping and times for running wild and in sport. Little Night is for both of those times.
~L (omphaloskepsis)
eirenophile's review
5.0
ETA: Now that I have little ones and read this over and over, the writing stands out as lyrical and delightful to share with a kid.
I'd give the illustrations five stars and the writing maybe three stars. Thank you Abigail for reviewing this! It was beautiful.
I'd give the illustrations five stars and the writing maybe three stars. Thank you Abigail for reviewing this! It was beautiful.
antlersantlers's review
5.0
SO GOOD! Gorgeous, sweet, lovely bedtime story. Mama and Little Night are going through their bedtime routine, and with each step Little Night hides and tries to put off bedtime just a little. It reminds me a lot of [b:I Just Want to Say Good Night|30780234|I Just Want to Say Good Night|Rachel Isadora|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1469407000l/30780234._SX50_.jpg|51368544] and when we rotate our PJ story time books I definitely want to add this one!
chachacenteno's review
5.0
Charming tale of the universe, from the stars to sunsets and the milky way.