Little Night/Nochecita

The paintings are so luscious and beautiful you want to touch them they look so soft. The mother in the story is so loving and patient and the child is playful and sweet, a magical look at the stars, moon and night. I loved reading this book over and over, soaking in the playful nature of the story

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and beautiful imaginative landscape.

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Another good picture book, with beautiful artwork, but I think I'd use it for story time or during a family unit, or even during a environment unit because it touches on many things in the universe.

This book has some really great illustratons and uses great colors. However, I didn't really care for the story.

When I say this book is gorgeous, I don't mean it looks merely pretty, or even beautiful. I mean the colors are rich, the lines vivid, the faces real. I would say that the text is sweet, but that's like saying gold or honey is "kinda yellow". Honey isn't half as sweet as this book, anyway.

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can only buy one bedtime book this year, make it this one. You won't regret it.

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Good pictures with the story. I liked how they talked about the wind blowing them around.

This book is a beautiful combination of magic and realism...with amazing art to go with! Little Night is a energatic girl that loves to play Hide and Go Seek with her mother, who is trying to get her ready for bed. Although the girl keeps playing games, the mother never gets annoyed or angry. She

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happily endulges her daughter, which warms the readers heart. I especially love how the girl plays with her moon ball and had the planets in her hair. It gives the feeling of a myth rather than a picture book.

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When Mother Sky tries to give her daughter a bath, Little Night quickly hides. Thus begins a playful game of hide and seek filled with common bedtime tasks and creative hiding places. Little Night is a beautiful bedtime story for young children. The everyday bedtime tasks will be familiar to

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children, while the night themed elements, such as a bath filled with falling stars, clothes crocheted from clouds, and planets for hairpins, give magic to the story. Both the text and the illustrations depict a truly loving relationship between mother and daughter. Yuyi Morales’ full spread paintings, filled with flowing figures and amazing colors, add a calming feeling to the story. Little Night will appeal to children under six. It is recommended for the children’s section of public libraries.

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Mother Sky gets her daughter ready for the nighttime in this lovely tale, chasing after and finding her, as she continually runs off to hide. Behind the hills, inside a bat's cave, in a blueberry field, Little Night finds plenty of places to conceal herself, but Mother Sky always manages to find

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her, eventually succeeding in bathing her (in falling stars), dressing her (in a dress crocheted from clouds), and untangling her hair (with a shiny comb). Now Little Night is ready to play with her Moon ball...

An innovative recreation of the bedtime story, Yuyi Morales' Little Night imagines a mother preparing her child for nighttime play, rather than the more traditional sleep. The seek-and-find element of the tale, in which mother always finds her baby, will be quite familiar to picture-book readers, although it has a particularly magical feeling here. Just as magical, the artwork - with its deep, vivid colors, and humorous little details - will leave the reader enchanted! I loved the way Mother Sky's braids were constantly sticking out behind or above her, almost like antennae feeling for something. I loved Morales' dark, restful palette, so suitable for a nighttime story. And I loved the emotional attachment between mother and daughter, that is so evident in these illustrations. My favorite scene is probably the one, toward the end, in which Mother Sky fixes three hairpins - Venus, Mercury and Jupiter - in Little Night's hair. Just beautiful!

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When Mother Sky tries to give her daughter Little Night a bath, Little Night plays a fansical game of hide and seek.

Always knowing where she could find her child, she looks for her in a loving way. Reaching out in the miles and miles of night sky, when she locates her child, she baths her and

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combs her hair, making swirls fascinted by three barets.

The barets anchor Little Night as they provide bright light of Venus, Mercury and Jupiter.

There is a magical, whimsical, wonderful air of this book. Riding the night sky, playing with a lighted moon ball mother and daughter unite in a star studded evening.

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57/2021. Little Night / Nochecita, by Mexican / USian author Yuyi Morales, is a resplendently illustrated bilingual English / Spanish children's book about Mother Sky playing hide and seek with her daughter Little Night while they get Little Night bathed, dressed, fed, and ready to go.