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“‘Climb on,’ said the lion in a deep, gentle voice. …”

 

In yesterday’s post, I mentioned this BookPage feature about, in part, David Zeltser’s The Night Library (Random House, April 2019), illustrated by Raúl Colón.

Here today is a bit of art from the book.

Enjoy!

 

“It was the night before my eighth birthday,
and I was having trouble falling asleep. …”
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“The books came together into the shape of my grandpa and me
in his favorite chair, reading together. …”
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” … Then I climbed onto Patience’s back, and we headed home.”
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“On our doormat was a shiny new library card …”

 

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THE NIGHT LIBRARY. Text copyright © 2019 by David Zeltser. Illustrations © 2019 by Raúl Colón and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Random House, New York.