Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night: A Newbery Honor Award Winner (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780547152288)

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.

Come out to the cool, night wood, and buzz and hoot and howl--but do beware of the great horned owl--for it's wild and it's windy way out in the woods!
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: Joyce Sidman
ISBN-10: 0547152280
ISBN-13: 9780547152288
Publisher: Clarion Books
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2010
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 10.10h x 10.80w x 0.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 139110 / Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night

Award: Newbery Medal - Honor Book
Award: Cybils - Finalist
Award: Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards - Honor Book
Award: Beehive Awards - Nominee
Award: Young Hoosier Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2010 pg. 68
School Library Journal 08/01/2010 pg. 122
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2010 - Book Of Special Distinction
Publishers Weekly 08/09/2010
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2010 pg. 104
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2011 pg. 11
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2011 pg. 182