Award-winning artist Daniel San Souci has created a jewel of a picturebook that is more than a gentle story to be used at bedtime or read-aloud times. It also provides young children with an early look at natural science and an appreciation of the wondrous creatures that inhabit our earth.
"As the lights go out in a log cabin in the woods, the people inside go off to sleep. But outside, under the winter moon, many animals are awake: the great horned owl swoops down from the treetops searching for prey; a cottontail rabbit munches on a dinner of this and leaves; a graceful deer bends her slender neck to drink from the lake.
"Daniel San Souci's lyrical text combines with the dramatic realism of his moonlit landscapes to create a fascinating glimpse of the many creatures that move with the rhythms of the night" (quoted from front flap).
Condition: blue pictorial boards, with previous owner's bookplate, a fine copy in jacket with half-inch closed tear at top right and slight edge-wear else in near fine jacket.
Published by Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1990. Stated first edition, 3rd printing.
