 "Night of the Gargoyles"
Children's
Book by Eve Bunting. Ilustrated by David Wiesner in black and white.
A New York Times Best Book of the Year
An ABA "Pick of the Lists"
A Bank Street College Children's Book of the Year
A Parenting Magazine Reading Magic Award Book.
The Gargoyles come out at night in the dark. Halloween is a great night for gargoyles. The verse by Eve Bunting and the black and white charcoal pictures of gargoyles creeping arround at night will add to the spirt of halloween. Not for the faint of heart!
"It's gargoyle gleefulness!" School Library Journal, starred
Caldecott Medal Winner Wiesner's charcoal drawings are as breathtaking as Bunting's prose in this wildly successful attempt to prove what we've always suspected: The gargoyle lives." - Kirkus Review, pointer
"A haunting black-and-white picture book . . . . The gargoyles' impish, grotesque grins and 'empty eyes unblinking' are not easily forgotten" - Publisher's Weekly.
(softcover book, 9 x 12
inches, 22.9 x 30.5 cm, 28 pages) Black and White illustrations. |