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PRESCHOOL

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

Naamah and the Ark at Night

32 pp. | Candlewick | August, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-4242-6 $16.99

(1) PS Illustrated by Holly Meade. Bartoletti shapes the ancient Arabic ghazal verse form into a gentle text centered on Noah's wife's lulling song: "As rain falls over the ark at night, / As water swirls in the dark of night..." Meade's watercolor collages, including sunlit figures and quietly dramatic, near-black silhouettes, are a fine complement to the text. A lovely lullaby, in a beautiful, masterfully integrated book.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2011