night

Contains six stories, each about a character whose life is transformed by an all-night vigil, including selections by Libba Bray, Patricia McCormick, Gene Luen Yang,Peter Abrahams, Sarah Weeks, and David Levithan.

Rhyming text tells of lullabies that can be heard in the sounds of the night, such as a radiator's hiss, a cat's shadowboxing, and a rainstorm's drumming.

A man who does not like the darkness of night finds a way to bring some light to it.

A little boy stays up all night to see what happens in his house after his bedtime.

After his mother has put him to bed, a boy named Matthew takes a journey through the night woods, meadows and mountains with wolves, whose songs are "nature's lullaby.".

A little girl makes a wish on a moonlit night and experiences a day that never ends, but she soon learns how constant daylight impacts the world around her and realizes that what she wished for is not what she really wants.

Three skittish brothers try to comfort each other when they hear night noises in their house.

Illustrations portray a father and his child going fishing against a background of Stevenson's poem about nightly happenings in the light of the moon.

Porcupine bakes cookies, watches a monster movie, and gets scared in the dark when his two best friends sleep over.

Unwilling to go to bed, Harry gets to stay up all night, but he discovers that staying awake all night in a quiet lonely house is not quite the treat he imagined it would be.