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Author Swanson, Susan Marie.

Title Getting used to the dark : 26 night poems / by Susan Marie Swanson ; illustrated by Peter Catalanotto.

Publication Info. New York : DK Pub., [1997]
©1997

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 811.54 Swanso Get 1997    Available  ---  Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Description 45 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note "A Richard Jackson book."
"A DK Ink book."
Contents Names for night -- Trouble, fly -- Night lights -- Night lights -- Night knows -- Nick and the stale bread -- Joanie ice-skating after dark -- Truck of dreams -- To be like the sun -- Gold in my thoughts -- Poem to bring a good dream -- Poetry dream -- My heart is a cricket -- Karla's worries -- What happened -- Getting used to the dark -- Summer sleep charm -- Telescope poem -- Night house -- Deer dream -- Jay's river walk -- Ben under the blankets -- Hammer and nails dream -- Night garden -- Name dream -- Breathing -- Window around the moon.
Summary The mysteries, surprises, and delights of the night are here celebrated in evocative style and variety. The art, like dreams themselves, is a kaleidoscope of evanescent images, seen wholly only at the final spread, like the old, old moon shining in our minds.
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Subject Poetry.
Poetry.
Added Author Catalanotto, Peter, illustrator.
ISBN 0789424681 (hardcover)
9780789424686 (hardcover)