Find out just how many lights there are at night in Night Lights by Susan Gal. This is a fun book to read out loud. :-) Keep an eye on the dog (and notice what book is being read. Do you recognize it?) I loved the ending.

Singing the Dark, by Gail Sproule, and illustrated by Sheena Lott reminded me a bit of the time when I lived where I could here a piper 'pipe the sun down'. Kaylie loves to join her mother on the hillside to sing the sun down. Just a lovely book.

Are you brave enough to spend the night in a dark barn? Join four young boys as they try in Night in the Barn, by Faye Gibbons, illustrations by Erick Ingraham.

What happens at night in the deep, snowing woods? Find out in North Country Night, by Daniel San Souci. Glorious illustrations follow several animals as they search for food and shelter.

In the country, where there are no cars or sirens making noise, what do you hear? Frogs? Falling apples? An owl, perhaps? Night in the Country, by Cynthia Ryland and illustrated by Mary Szilagyi is a softly illustrated book of sounds. Lovely.

Here's another 'world tour' book: While You Are Sleeping: a Lift-the-Flap Book of Time Around the World, by Durga Bernhard. Just what IS going on on the other side of the world? This is a fun, clever book.

Reading Hermit With Dog