Drawing Things at Night

It isn’t easy to draw things in the dark. One illustrator, Mark Buehner (pronounced Beener), does a beautiful job of it. I love his artwork. Here are books he illustrated with a lot of nighttime pictures in them:

My Monster Mama Loves Me So
Laura Leuck HarperTrophy 0060088605

Snowmen at Night
Caralyn Buehner Dial 0803725507

Fanny’s Dream
Caralyn Buehner Dial 0803714963

What if you combined nighttime with living underground — in the subway. That’s double darkness. My other favorite story about night is

The Subway Mouse Barbara Reid
Scholastic Inc. 0439728274

OTHER GOOD NIGHTTIME PICTURE BOOKS:

Dream Journey Gilles Eduar
Orchard Books 0-531-30202-4

Edward’s Overwhelming Overnight
Rosemary Wells Dial Books 0-8037-1883-7

Night Shift Daddy Eileen Spinelli
Hyperion 0-7868-0495-5

Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak HarperTrophy 0-06-443178-9

The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon
Nancy Willard Harcourt Brace 0-15-257429-8

Stormy Night Michèle Lemieux
Kids Can Press 1-55074-692-8

Silent Night: The Song from Heaven
Linda Granfield Tundra Books 0-88776-395-2

Darkfright Holly Young Huth
Atheneum 0-689-80188-2

Midnight Mimi Marie-Louise Gay
Stoddart 0-7737-28155

Batwings and the Curtain of Night
Marguerite W. Davol Orchard Books 0-531-300005-6

Night Noises Mem Fox
Voyager Books 0-15-257421-2

Fireflies Alice Hoffman
Hyperion 0-7868-2180-9

Mole Music David McPhail
Henry Hole 0-8050-2819-6

Night Fun Patricia Quinlan
Annick Press 1-55037-487-7

Owl Moon Jane Yolen
Scholastic Inc., 0-590-42044-5

The Big Pets Lane Smith
Viking 0-670-83378-9

NIGHTTIME NON-FICTION:

The Nocturnal Naturalist: Exploring the Outdoors at Night
Cathy Johnson East Woods 0-87106-524-X

NocturnalAnimals & Classroom Nights
Acorn Naturalists McGraw-Hill 0-07 017911-5

Scary Science Sylvia Funston
Owl Books 1-895688-53-1

Bedtime! Ruth Freeman Swain
Holiday House 0-8234-1444-2

NIGHTTIME POEMS:

My Parents Think I’m Sleeping
Jack Prelutsky Greenwillow, NY 0-688-04018-7

Dusk to Dawn: Poems of Night Selected by Hill, Perkins
Helbig Thomas Y. Cromwell 0-690-04065-2

FOR OLDER CHILDREN:

Werewolves: A Collection of Original Stories
Edited by Jane Yolen Harper & Row 0-06-026799-2

Cure for Nightmares Troll 0-8167-441-9

There are also many interesting books about dreams, and picture books with dream themes in them, for instance...

Sweet Dream Pie, Moon Ball, Dinosaur Dreams, Cowboy Dreams, Sweet Dreams, The Dream House, Applelmando’s Dream. Look for these, too.

Found some other nighttime books you like a lot?
Let me know about them.