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Griffith, Helen V.

Moonlight

32 pp. | Greenwillow | January, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-203285-0 $16.99

(2) PS Illustrated by Laura Dronzek. Griffith spins a lilting text from an inviting simile: "moonlight slides like butter..." The protagonist is a sleepy rabbit who, by story's end, emerges from his burrow and "dances in the field / butter on his head!" Dronzek's nocturnal scenes, in deeply saturated acrylics, are dramatized by the play of that buttery light among the shadows, drawing readers into the story's quiet mystery.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2012