The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Rowand, Phyllis

It Is Night

32 pp. | Greenwillow | May, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-225024-7 $16.99
New ed. (1953, Harper)

(2) PS Illustrated by Laura Dronzek. A series of bedtime questions ("Where does a railroad train go at night?") receive answers in this book first published in 1953 with illustrations by Rowand. The lulling litany is sweetly updated in Dronzek's blanket-soft, moon-drenched art. Some unlikely groupings (tiger and giraffe) presage the satisfying conclusion in which it is shown that the creatures are dolls, toys, and pets.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2014