West Routt Library District

Illustrations and easy -to-read text explore the light that makes a house in the night a home filled with light.

Sylvie the cat persuades her boy to go into the darkness very late at night. There they are greeted by the shadows of roses and other flowers, and by nocturnal animals who whisper, "it's almost here.".

Nighttime is a wonderful time to enjoy the lights, the games, and the rides at a fair.

A parent and child enjoy the nighttime world together before bedtime.

A mother duck tries to persuade her five ducklings to go to sleep on a dark night.

The nighttime world includes lots of quiet activity, from animals moving in the woods to cars on the city streets to a child hearing a bedtime story and receiving a goodnight kiss.

Each night before going to bed, Melinda counts the lights, from one seashell on the nursery wall to a million twinkling stars.

Animals and birds all around the world are falling asleep as the moon and stars shine above.

A very small boy is afraid of the dark, especially when the shadow under his bed becomes a fierce dragon. He soon learns, however, that even dragons have their gentle side.

Contrasts the world as viewed in sunlight and then the quiet night world in moonlight.