A Night Time Story

by Roberto Aliaga, Sonja Wimmer (Illustrator), Jon Brokenbrow (Translator)

Overview

Winner at the 2013 IPPY Awards

This tale visits the magic moment, when all of the things we imagine, all of the things we dream, parade before our eyes…

Guided Reading Level: L, Lexile Level: 790L

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788415241980
Publisher:	Cuento de Luz
Publication date:	08/24/2012
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	10.30(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	AD790L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

The award-winning author Roberto Aliaga was born in Spain where he graduated as a biologist. He has published more then 30 books, many of which have been translated into different languages. In 2009 he was included in the White Raven list.

After several years studying and working as a designer in her hometown Munich and Brussels, Sonja Wimmer decided to devote herself to illustration and traveled to Barcelona to continue her artistic training at the Llotja School of Design Art. Since then, she lives between brushes and stories, working as an illustrator and freelance for publishers and other customers worldwide. She has received many awards for her work in the United states, most notably Gold Medal for Best Illustrator for The Word Collector.

Editorial Reviews

An oneiric journey that leaves a mark on the reader.” —Apegoyliteratura

From the Publisher

A winner of the Lazarillo Award, the prize in Spain for children's literature, Aliaga weaves a tale translated into English with mixed results. Wimmer's pictures are surreal and dreamlike: colors soft and deep; pigs with wings and pirates piloting tea cups and beds that turn into camels. Figures are stretched and elongated and change their shapes like Alice with the mushroom. The red-haired, golden-eyed child says, "Every night before I go to sleep, she sits down on my bed with heaps of stories in her hands." "She" is a figure with endless tendrils of black hair and bright blue eyes. When the girl is on a Ferris wheel in a sweet story, she rises up in a starlit cloak to hand the child some cotton candy. For a magical story, the child's bed is in a tree, and disembodied hands hold her, teaching her "to sing and fly." At the end, "the night sits on my bed, with heaps of dreams in her hands," cradling the tiny child, bed and all. The mother/storyteller/night image is lovely in pictures, but some of the language is ungraceful or obscure: "I'm always the main character," or "in search of a mirage...." While the dreamlike nature of the images is fairly accessible, children (and adults) may find themselves stopped cold by nonrhythmic sentence structure. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews