What Color Is Night?

by Grant Snider

Overview

Look closer. Grant Snider's beautiful debut picture book explores the wonders—and colors—of nighttime. For night is not just black and white. Ending in colors yet unseen, and a night of sweet dreams, this lilting lullaby is sure to comfort those drifting off to sleep. With luminous art as spare and glowing as the moon, and lyrical text that reads like a friend leading the way through the wilderness, What Color Is Night? is a rich and timeless look at a topic of endless fascination, and a perfect bedtime read-aloud.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452179926
Publisher:	Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date:	11/05/2019
Pages:	44
Sales rank:	124,620
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD310L (what's this?)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

Grant Snider is an orthodontist by day and an author and artist of comics and picture books by night. He lives in Wichita, Kansas.

Editorial Reviews

"If you think the night is black, think again. Snider's elegant nocturnal idyll explores the many colors visible to those who 'look closer.' [What Color is Night?] will have young readers hoping to stay up for a glimpse of 'colors unseen.'" — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2019-09-29
If you think the night is black, think again.

Snider's elegant nocturnal idyll explores the many colors visible to those who "look closer." The dark blue sky, "a big yellow moon beginning to rise," the glow of red neon in the city and of faraway yellow headlights in the country, the glowing green eyes of raccoons on the prowl—it turns out the night is fairly pulsing with colors. Thick ink outlines rooftops, sinuous tree branches, skyscrapers, moths, and more; the appropriately nighttime palette will have eyes straining a bit to see dark-gray outlines against dark-blue sky and black foreground shapes. For all that his shapes are simplified, at times even childlike in their line, the effect is startlingly realistic. The sky above the neon-lit city glows murky orange from the light below; in contrast, "a thousand silver stars spilled across the sky" are crystalline white against the navy-blue vastness above a quiet farm. Text is set primarily in gray and white against dark backgrounds, a large-font serif type ensuring legibility. The stately text and stillness of the images give the book a solemn air that is leavened with, first, "a midnight snack" of Lucky Charms and then a dream balloon flight that takes a brown-skinned child with long puffy hair over a sea of "pink and purple clouds."

This will have young readers hoping to stay up for a glimpse of "colors unseen." (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews

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