Shimmer: Songs of Night

by Raven Howell, Carina Povarchik (Illustrator)

Overview

For a child, the time between sundown and sunup can be an enchanting world of mystery and fun, a time when fairies dance, night creatures creak and hum, and stars reign over all. What are a child’s thoughts when he or she hears the evening’s first cricket, has a sleepover with friends, or looks up at the stars and wonders, “What’s up there?”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781946101396
Publisher:	Spork
Publication date:	10/17/2017
Pages:	58
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.15(d)
Age Range:	5 - 12 Years

About the Author

Award winning children's poet and picture book author Raven Howell has several published titles including Gibber/Animal Acrostics and A Star Full of Sky. Her work is featured in the Parents' Choice award children's video, Noodlebug, and she's received three awards from the SCBWI. She writes poetry for children's magazines, and delights in presenting poetry workshops, visiting libraries and working in elementary classrooms.
Growing up in a household of poetry and song, Raven now lives with her husband in the Hudson Valley, enjoys time with her children, artwork, baking, a good mystery read, walking up and over mountains and across ocean beaches, sunshine and starry skies!
www.ravenhowell.com https://www.facebook.com/raven.howell.75

Born, raised and currently living in Argentina, Carina usually signs her works as Catru. Carina's parent's house was full of tools and handcrafted products made by them. That's where she got her love for creating.
Carina always did lots of things and tried all kinds of techniques. When 5 years old, she made paintings with ink using her own style and sold them on the street. Carina first graduated from a short computer program and then went on to graduate with a Bachelors in Educational Technologies. She subsequently taught computer programming at the college level, for many years. In 2007, she received, as a birthday surprise gift, a drawing tablet. And there, it all began.

https://catru.myportfolio.com

Editorial Reviews

“Raven Howell’s poems are whimsical, wise, and infused with a ti meless sense of the joy and wonder of childhood. Both playful and profound, these poems are love-lett ers to Life, and remind us of the simple capacity for happiness that is our birthright.” - Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, Children’s Book Writer

From the Publisher

2017-07-13
A prolific children's poet offers an eclectic collection of nighttime pieces. Opossums, space creatures, the Sandman, dream catchers, and Halloween trick-or-treaters—this inviting book of poems for ages 6 to 12 celebrates dusk to dawn as a world of possibility where nature and flights of fancy coexist. Using different forms (haiku, free verse, couplets, quatrains, and more), Howell (Gibber, 2016, etc.) shapes her rhythms and rhymes with a keen appreciation for the subjects and wordplay most likely to engage her target audience. They are matched on every page by debut illustrator Povarchik's fluid watercolor-and-ink images (of wildlife, imaginary beasts, and white siblings), employing a bright, varied palette. The poet's lyrical universe is a place where back-to-back haiku ("5 P.M." and "5 A.M.") contrast whispered secrets as "the wind scrambles by" with the view of "tall and patient" sunflowers anticipating the coming day; where fireflies "skitter" and "flitter" and the Sandman "slippers into the night"; where "Beehives of buildings /…Glow honey-yellow"; where dusk can be "as thick / As chocolate cake"; and where, when bats fly, "The silver of moon / Glistens a bit / On the black on black, / On the flitter and flit." From a child's thoughts about the cosmos and fairy rings to campfire ponderings, shooting stars, and pillow fights, Howell's witty and wise visions of night flow along until "The skillet sky / Warms up / To a pale buttery yellow." This verbal and visual treat portrays the evening as a lively and thought-provoking place of wonder.

Kirkus Reviews