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Little Owl’s Night, by Divya Srinivasan, 2013, New York, NY: Viking Books for Young Readers. 34 pages. ISBN: 978-0670015795.
Age/Interest Level: 3-6 years
Lexile Level: AD480L
Awards: N/A
Reader Annotation: Little Owl loves the nighttime and cannot understand why anyone would ever want to be up during the day. Under a moonlit backdrop, he looks to the wonders around him.
Plot Summary: Little Owl wakes up after his long day of sleeping. It’s the middle of the night and a full moon is out. All of his nocturnal friends are p and doing their business. Crickets chirp and frogs let out some croaks. He wonders aloud to his mother why anyone would want to be awake during the day when night is so great. She starts to tell him about the beauty of the day.
Critical Evaluation: This is a rather beautiful board book, both in text and illustrations. The illustrations are showcased primarily on a black background with dull colors peeking through. The characters have been inserted over this and they pop and seem to truly inhabit the night. The text is fairly simple with a few multisyllabic words thrown in. However, it is lyrical and soothing in nature and feels right like a bedtime story.
Why Included: This is a very sweet work with a beautiful sharing of wisdom between a mother and a child. It’s a bedtime story that feels fresh and different and inspires an interest in the night, showing the creatures that actually inhabit it and what they do. This might pique some interest from children who have been initially scared of the dark.
Age/Interest Level: 3-6 years
Lexile Level: AD480L
Awards: N/A
Reader Annotation: Little Owl loves the nighttime and cannot understand why anyone would ever want to be up during the day. Under a moonlit backdrop, he looks to the wonders around him.
Plot Summary: Little Owl wakes up after his long day of sleeping. It’s the middle of the night and a full moon is out. All of his nocturnal friends are p and doing their business. Crickets chirp and frogs let out some croaks. He wonders aloud to his mother why anyone would want to be awake during the day when night is so great. She starts to tell him about the beauty of the day.
Critical Evaluation: This is a rather beautiful board book, both in text and illustrations. The illustrations are showcased primarily on a black background with dull colors peeking through. The characters have been inserted over this and they pop and seem to truly inhabit the night. The text is fairly simple with a few multisyllabic words thrown in. However, it is lyrical and soothing in nature and feels right like a bedtime story.
Why Included: This is a very sweet work with a beautiful sharing of wisdom between a mother and a child. It’s a bedtime story that feels fresh and different and inspires an interest in the night, showing the creatures that actually inhabit it and what they do. This might pique some interest from children who have been initially scared of the dark.