From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 07:15:03 -0600

If you haven't seen Sandy Turner's hilariously funny wordless 32-page book "Silent Night" (Atheneum) you've missed one of the sleepers of the year. (Shameless pun)

A yippy yappy pup who attempts to let its slumbering people know that something's up, something's happening out there, oops it's happening in here, don't miss it, don't miss it, wake up, wake up. The dog is everywhere, barking yipping yapping and sometimes filling whole pages with its attempts to rouse its sleeping family.

Silent night, indeed!

I'm wrong. It isn't a wordless book after all. With all due respect to the pup, the only words in "Silent Night" are the words humans use to indicate barking sounds. Maybe it's a "textless" book. Decide for yourself when you find it - and do find it.

Three colors with the red in Santa's garb predominating make this original story one of the very best of the year.

Though I'm pleased with the CCBC Caldecott Discussion List and outcomes http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/awards/caldre.htm I wish we'd thought about putting this terrific book on that discussion list, too.

Cheers, Ginny gmkruse at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Sat 22 Dec 2001 07:15:03 AM CST