Joyce Sidman
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Life Science
- Environment & Ecology
- Lyrical / Visual Picture Book
- Nature Narrative / Field Discovery
Dark Emperor leads readers through a night forest in poems voiced around mice, moths, snails, spiders, trees, porcupines, and an owl. Each poem's sensory image is paired with factual ecology, so the hidden activity of the woodland becomes the collection's drama.
The science inside
- Animals & Zoology
- Ecosystems
- Plants & Botany
Your child will meet:
- Nocturnal organisms use structures and behaviors suited to finding food, avoiding danger, and communicating in low light.
- A forest remains biologically active at night even when many daytime observers are asleep.
- Predators, prey, plants, and decomposers are connected within the same woodland ecosystem.
Use it this way
Parent effort: No prep
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.
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