Night of the Gargoyles - Softcover

Bunting, Eve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395968879 ISBN 13: 9780395968871

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1999

Synopsis

"As evening falls, the grotesquely carved guardians on an art museum rise up to peer and prowl...The black-and-white pastels--eerie, unusual, and utterly creepy--are spine-chillingly perfect."--"School Library Journal" Best Books Of The Year. Also, ALA "Quick Picks" Recommended Books for the Reluctant Reader and Carolyn Field Honor Book Award.

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Review:

October 1, 1994 Ages 4-8. In a macabre and funny picture book, those stone gargoyles that squat all day on public buildings get free at night and come down from their shadowy corners. Bunting's words are creepy and poetic, scary because they are so physically precise. The stone creatures are "pock-marked," their tongues "green-pickled at the edges." They have unblinking, bulging eyes and their mouths gape like empty suits of armor in museum halls. Wiesner's duotone charcoal illustrations capture the huge heaviness of the stone figures and their gloomy malevolence as they bump and fly and tumble free in the dark. They are so ugly. They're like fiends that come from the graves at night. They're also very human. Wiesner's funniest scene is a double-page spread of a group of gargoyle creatures hunching and grunting together at a spitting water fountain. They could be the gossips and grousers at your local neighborhood hangout. This book is more a situation than a story, but it makes you face what you've always feared but hadn't quite seen. Even the word gargoyle makes you choke. Hazel Rochman Copyright(c) 1994, American Library Association. All rights reserved.
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About the Author:

Eve Bunting has written over two hundred books for children, including the Caldecott Medal-winning Smoky Night, illustrated by David Diaz, The Wall, Fly Away Home, and Train to Somewhere. She lives in Southern California.

David Wiesner is internationally renowned for his visual storytelling and has won the Caldecott Medal three times--for Tuesday, The Three Pigs, and Flotsam--the second person in history to do so. He is also the recipient of three Caldecott Honors, for Free Fall, Sector 7, and Mr. Wuffles. He lives near Philadelphia with his family. www.hmhbooks.com/wiesner

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0395968879
• ISBN 13: 9780395968871
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Wiesner David