Welcome to the night, where poet and printmaker offer an organic and illuminated look at the very intriguing creatures that linger in the very dark night wood.


Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze,come smell your way among the trees,come touch rough bark and leathered leaves:Welcome to the night. Welcome to the night, when mice stir and furry moths flutter. When snails spiral into shells as orb spiders circle in silk. When the roots of oak trees recover and repair from their time in the light. When the porcupette eats delicacies—raspberry leaves!—and coos to its mother. Come out to the cool night woods, and buzz and hoot and howl—but beware—for it’s wild and it’s windy way out in the woods!
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
Joyce Sidman is the award-winning poet of many fine books, including two Caldecott Honor books, Red Sings from Treetops and Song of the Water Boatman. She lives in Wayzata, Minnesota.
www.joycesidman.com
 
Rick Allen makes his Houghton Mifflin picture book debut with this very book. He produces myriad printed ephemerae at The Kenspeckle Letterpress in Duluth, Minnesota.
www.kenspeckleletterpress.com