# Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night: A Newbery Honor Award Winner - Hardcover

by **Joyce Sidman** (Author), **Rick Allen** (Illustrator)

A 2011 Newbery Honor Book

_Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze,  
come smell your way among the trees,  
come touch rough bark and leathered leaves:  
Welcome to the night.  
_  
Welcome to the night, where mice stir and furry moths flutter. Where snails spiral into shells as orb spiders circle in silk. Where the roots of oak trees recover and repair from their time in the light. Where the porcupette eats delicacies--raspberry leaves!--and coos and sings.

Come out to the cool, night wood, and buzz and hoot and howl--but do beware of the great horned owl--_for it's wild and it's windy way out in the woods!  
_This Newbery Honor-winning picture book combines beautifully written poetry with facts of the forest and elaborate illustrations to form a marvelously engaging collection.

### Author Biography

Joyce Sidman is the award-winning poet of many fine books, including two Caldecott Honor books, _Red Sings from Treetops_ and _Song of the Water Boatman._ She lives in Wayzata, Minnesota. www.joycesidman.com Rick Allen makes his Houghton Mifflin picture book debut with this very book. He produces myriad printed ephemerae at The Kenspeckle Letterpress in Duluth, Minnesota. www.kenspeckleletterpress.com

**Number of Pages:** 32

**Dimensions:** 0.5 x 10.1 x 10.8 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** September 06, 2010

**Award:** Newbery Medal (2011)

**Award:** Cybils (2010)

**Award:** Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (2011)

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night

**Interest Level:** Lower Grades, K-3

**Reading Level:** 6.1

**Point Value:** 0.5

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- **Price:** 17.99 USD
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