Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night: A Newbery Honor Award Winner - Hardcover
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night: A Newbery Honor Award Winner - Hardcover
by Joyce Sidman (Author), Rick Allen (Illustrator)
A 2011 Newbery Honor Book
Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze,
come smell your way among the trees,
come touch rough bark and leathered leaves:
Welcome to the night.
Welcome to the night, where mice stir and furry moths flutter. Where snails spiral into shells as orb spiders circle in silk. Where the roots of oak trees recover and repair from their time in the light. Where the porcupette eats delicacies--raspberry leaves!--and coos and sings.
This Newbery Honor-winning picture book combines beautifully written poetry with facts of the forest and elaborate illustrations to form a marvelously engaging collection.
Author Biography
Joyce Sidman is the award-winning poet of many fine books, including two Caldecott Honor books, Red Sings from Treetops and Song of the Water Boatman. She lives in Wayzata, Minnesota. www.joycesidman.com Rick Allen makes his Houghton Mifflin picture book debut with this very book. He produces myriad printed ephemerae at The Kenspeckle Letterpress in Duluth, Minnesota. www.kenspeckleletterpress.com