Julie Downing

An ingenious account of the jobs people do all through the night, when kids are fast asleep. In Night in the City, author and illustrator Julie Downing cleverly uses multiple panels to follow eight people throughout the course of their busy evening, from waking up just as most people are contemplating bedtime, through the following morning. The jobs depicted are nurse, baker, taxi driver, fire fighter, on location film tech, janitor, museum security...

In rhyming text, the animals of the forest wake up with the Sun, and go about their lives until night comes, and the Moon returns.

Scarlet the vampire and Igor the mummy are friends, even though they can never agree on what they want to do or anything else--except that they are best friends.

"A woman's passion for chess endures from her childhood in Vienna through her emigration to San Francisco as a Jewish refugee of WWII. Based on the life of the author's grandmother, Elsa Konstandt Weisz"-- Provided by publisher.

In eighteenth-century Korea, after Sang-hee's father injures his ankle, Sang-hee attempts to take over the task of lighting the evening fire which signals to the palace that all is well.

When Polly and her mother take a walk on the farm on a foggy morning, Polly learns that things are still there even though the fog hides them.