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Two young children and their parents go for a summer nighttime walk through the darkness. The world is quiet and shadowy. They walk out of their village and through the forest until they come to a lake where they stop to play with the moon. They lie down in the grass to watch the glittering sky. Finally, they climb a hillside just in time to see the dawn of a new day. The rich illustrations were hand-drawn using graphite pencils and watercolors and finished digitally. The only lights in the evocative darkness are lamps, porch lights, lights in windows, a flashlight, and the moon, until the sun rises on a double-page spread of the sun and its bright yellow light. mjw

Title: The Night Walk
Author: Marie Dorleans
Illustrator: Marie Dorleans
Publisher: Floris Books
Copyright: 2020
Original Language: French
Translator: Polly Lawson
Original Title: Nous Avons Rendez-Vous
Original Publisher: Editions du Seuil
Original Copyright: 2018
ISBN: 978-178250-639-3
Hardcover pages: 32
Age range: 4-8
Genre: Picture Book
Author’s ethnicity: French
Author’s residence: France
Illustrator’s ethnicity: French
Illustrator’s residence: France
Awards: Prix Landerneau
Subjects: Forest, Natural world, Night, Lakes, Moon, Sunrise, Village