Night of the gargoyles

This book is about gargoyles that come to life at night. Even though this is a picture book with not a lot of words, I wouldn't recommend this book to younger students. It could be somewhat scary and it also has some harder vocabulary that they wouldn't know. If you wanted to introduce the new

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vocabulary to the students before you read, then it would be more appropriate for younger students. The pictures are black and white and very interesting.

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Night of the gargoyles
The book is about the life of gargoyles. They stay up on the building during the day but at night they leave from off the building to be free in the night air. They window shop, fly up to the stars and even hand out with other gargoyles. They complain about the things they go

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threw during the day. Hot sun raises, rain and the birds are the worst for them. But after a night of fun they retire back to there buildings awaiting the night to return again.

I thought this would be a good story being so close to Halloween. But the kids didn’t like it. I guess most of born in Oklahoma probably have never seen a gargoyle that hand off of buildings. It was just a book to them. They listened but not much discussion on this book.

I only did one activity with them because I didn’t really want to draw it out. I brought pictures of my trip down to San Antonio, when my family and I went on the river boat ride. There where gargoyles on the building. They looked but they didn’t really get excited. Then we did a coloring sheet.

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About Gargoyles coming to life at night, very scary and spooky.

(easy picture book, fiction) At night, perhaps set in London or the like, atop of a museum, lifeless stone gargoyles come to life as the moon rises and the sun sets. The gargoyles partake in very human activities such as hanging out in a fountain together and complaining of everyday humdrum details

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such as how to deal with the pigeons that sit on their head , the autumn leaves that clog their drainspoutsor how the sun make their "corners" hot. It aids in one's imagination as to what it might be like to actually be a gargoyle sitting on a building perch, day in and day out. As a fan of gargoyle sculpture, I would envision a fun activity would be to supply photographs of different gargoyles found on buildings around the world to study. Gargoyle mythology could also be explored. If you lived near a place such as Princeton University in New Jersey, a scavenger field trip would be fun. I did this myself one day and explored the campus taking photographs of the different gargoyles I discovered on the various buildings. Gargoyles could be created out of clay. The book lends itself to many hands-on imaginative activities. One of the things I like best about the book is the description the gargoyles use to describe their frustration at not having more human like qualities, such as "gargoyle laughs that rumble thick because their is no space inside their solid stone for laughs to somersault." These are basic human priveleges we take for granted that I'm sure a stone gargoyle would love to experience!

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I've liked gargoyles since my college days, and I enjoy black and white photography and illustrations as well, so this book was right up my alley. Love David Wiesner illustrations as well, so I enjoyed this one. It isn't as light as the other Wiesners I've seen, but still interesting.

Wiesner illustrated with dark black and white drawings. Story is about what gargoyles get up to once night falls.

This is a poem about gargoyles with intricate and thought provoking illustrations.

Wiesner illustrated with dark black and white drawings. Story is about what gargoyles get up to once night falls.

"The gargoyles squat / high on corners / staring into space, their empty eyes unblinking / till night comes." So begins the poetic narrative of this striking picture book from author Eve Bunting and illustrator David Wiesner. Leaving their stiff daytime positions, the gargoyles peek into the museum

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they guard, cavort in a nearby fountain, and frighten the night watchman, before returning to their accustomed places as dawn approaches...

The beautifully evocative text from Bunting, describing the antics of the gargoyles at night, is perfectly matched by the dark-toned but gorgeous pastel artwork of Wiesner in Night of the Gargoyles. As an admirer of both of these picture book creators, I was eager to track down this beautiful but fearsome title, which, although it is not explicitly a Halloween tale, was done in honor of the season. How glad I am that I did, as I found everything about it beautiful. I was reminded of another gargoyle-centered picture book I have read and enjoyed—Dav Pilkey's God Bless the Gargoyles. On the whole, I think I found the Pilkey more emotionally resonant than this one, as it addressed deeper philosophical and religious themes, but aesthetically, from a textual and visual perspective, I think I prefer this one. Perhaps the two could be read together, for two different views on gargoyles.

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