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 guard, and emergency dispatcher.
Together, their stories bring the beating heart of a city to life, making for a book sure to have kids pouring over meticulously designed pages, following the exploits of our lead characters over the course of a single ordinary evening.
A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
A Chicago Public Library 'Best of the Best' Book
A Horn Book Fanfare Book
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
- ISBN10 0823452069
- ISBN13 9780823452064
- Publish Date 28 March 2023
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 June 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Neal Porter Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 40
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780823452064