This page is a book list for kindergarten to second grade classes.  Night can be a very scary time for many young children.  By reading about it and learning about it, the children can become more aware of what it is and how interesting it is.

    Appelt, Kathi. Bayou Lullaby. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1995. Illustrated by Neil Waldman.

       Good-night poem from the Bayou.  This book includes Cajun pronunciations to assist in reading.  This book is good for a multicultural look at night.

     Arnosky, Jim. All Night Near the Water. New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1994.  

        A mother duck protects her ducklings as they sleep by the water.  This book illustrates the dangers of night as well as the protection of a parent.

    Asch, Frank. Moondance. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1993.

        Bear dreams of dancing with the moon and finally does.  This illustrates the magic of the night.

Aylesworth, Jim. The Good-Night Kiss. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1993. Illustated by Lyon Krudop.

         This book goes through the queit activities of the nighttime world.

   Aylesworth, Jim. Through the Night. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1998. Illustrated by Pamela Patrick.

         Driving through the night, Daddy thinks of his wife and children greeting him when he arrives home.  This book is wonderful for the idea that the night is peaceful.



     Esbensen, Barbara Juster. The Night Rainbow. New York: Orchard Books, 2000. Illustrated by Helen K. Davie.

         This book is a poem based on the northern lights.  This book goes through the people, animals, ghosts, dancers, and battles associated with this occurance.  Many children do not know about the Northern lights.  This book gives a great depiction of the event.



     Hort, Lenny. How Many Stars in the Sky? New York:Tambourine Books, 1991. Illustrated by James E. Ransome.

          A daddy and child find a good place to count the stars.  This book is good for beginning to talking about what is in the night sky.





Huth, Holly Young. Twilight. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000. Illustrated by David McPhail.

           A little girl brings twilight, bringing night to the day.  This book has great illustrations and is wonderful for talking about twilight.



  Johnston, Tony. The Barn Owls. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishing, 2000. Illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray.

           For hundreds of years, generations of owls have raised families, hunted, and lived around one barn. This book introduces the animals of the night.


   Jones, Joy. Tambourine Moon. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999. Illustrated by Terry Widener.

          Noni is afraid of the night.  Her granddaddy tells her how he met her grandma one dark night when the big yellow moon lit up the sky.




Ray, Deborah Kogan. Stargazing Sky. Ney York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991.

          A little girl stays up with her mother to watch the shooting stars.  This is something many children do not know about.  To know that it is something they can really see is fascinating for them.


    Wolff, Ashley. Only the Cat Saw. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1985.

          Amy and her family get ready for bed and the cat is the only one awake to explore the night.  This is great for kids because they usually are asleep and do not see what this cat sees.


     Yolen, Jane. Nocture. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997. Illustrated by Anne Hunter.

          Parent and child enjoy the night before going to bed.  This is also a great book for children to be able to explore the night that they do not get to see.

      Hickman, Pamela. The Night Book. Buffalo: Kids Can Press Ltd., 1999. Illustrated by Suzanne Morgensen.

          This book explores the nature that exists after dark.  It contains activities, experiments, and tons of information.  This book not only talks about the animals of the night but every part of night.




George, Michael. Stars. Mankato, Minnesota: Creative Education, Inc., 1991.

          Photographs of the stars are background for each page.  This book give great information of the nature of stars and how they change and what the differences are.

    Gibbons, Faye. Hook Moon Night. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1997. Illustrated by Ronald Himler.

          This book is a collection of scary stories from the Georgia Mountains.  This is a good book for those kids that like to be a little bit scared of the dark.


   Whelan, Gloria. Night of the Full Moon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Illustrated by Leslie Bowman.

          A young girl in the Michigan frontier sneaks away to visit her friend and gets caught in the forced evacuation of the Potawatomi Indians in the 1840s.  This book is great for the kids that want a little bit of history in a chapter book and some adventure as well.

   Gerson, Mary-Joan. How Night Came From the Sea. Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. Illustrated by Carla Golembe.

          The African sea goddess brings night to the land where there has only been daylight and heat, giving rest to the hot workers in Brazil.  This book give a great story of where night came from.


    Mora, Pat. The Night the Moon Fell. Berkeley: Groundwood Books/Douglas & McIntyre, 2000. Illustrated by Domi.

          This book is a Mopan Mayan tale of the moon saving herself and returning to the sky.  This book gives the moon and all of the other items of the world voices and lets them say what they feel about the moon.

Fisher, Leonard Everett. Galileo. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1992.

          Black and white illustrations depict Galileo's journey of exploration of the night sky.  This book includes a timeline of his life as well.


    Sis, Peter and Galileo Galilei. Starry Messenger. New York: Frances Foster Books, 1996.

           This book is a depiction of Galileo's life as a scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and physicist.  This is great for the many different things that Galileo did.