Night in the Country

<i>There is no night so dark so black as night in the country.</i> And while the people dream of daytime things the nighttime world awakens. Owls swoop a rabbit patters and in the yard an apple falls -- <i>pump!</i> -- from the tree. <br>Listen. Go to the window. Across the field a light glows. Who else is up so late? Who else watches and hears the sights and sounds of night in the country -- the many stirrings of silence the many colors of the dark? <br>Lyrical text and velvety pictures present a very different kind of nighttime: a mysterious moving night that will lull small children to sleep.