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Children's Fiction Bedtime & Dreams

Night Cars

by (author) Teddy Jam

illustrated by Eric Beddows

Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd
Initial publish date
Mar 1991
Category
Bedtime & Dreams, New Baby, City & Town Life
  • Board book

    ISBN
    9780888997487
    Publish Date
    Nov 2006
    List Price
    $11.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888991348
    Publish Date
    Mar 1991
    List Price
    $6.95

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Out of print

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 0 to 3
  • Grade: p to 12
  • Reading age: 0 to 3

Description

Winner of the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award

It is late at night in the city. From his father's shoulder, a sleepless baby watches the snow drift down from the sky onto the busy street below. What are all those noises? What are all those lights? His tired but patient father explains everything, from the bustle of taxis swishing through the slush to the grinding and slamming of the early-morning garbage trucks.

Teddy Jam’s lyrical prose and Eric Beddows’s detailed illustrations cast Night Cars in that magical light between sleep and waking. This classic baby book, now available in a board book format, is a perennial favorite.

About the authors

Teddy Jam (Matt Cohen) was the pseudonymous author of many wonderful children's books, including Night Cars (which Michele Landsberg called "the Canadian Goodnight Moon"), This New Baby, and The Year of Fire, The Stoneboat, The Kid Line and The Fishing Summer, now collected in the anthology How We Were. He was also a novelist who won the Governor General's Award for his last novel, Elizabeth and After.

Teddy Jam's profile page

Eric Beddows is a renowned illustrator who has won many awards, including the Governor General's Award for The Rooster's Gift, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award for the Zoom books, and the International Ezra Jack Keats Award bronze medal. He has also had numerous one-man shows of his artwork. He lives in Stratford, Ontario.

Eric Beddows' profile page

Awards

  • Winner, Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award

Editorial Reviews

The Canadian Goodnight Moon.

CBC Radio Children's Panel

Wonderful double page spread illustrations showing the baby in the foreground and the street in the background have a definite vintage feel. A minimal text with simple rhymes sweeps the reader from page to page with a soft rhythm which is soothing and which would be perfect for bedtime reading.

Through the Looking Glass Children's Book Review

This one has classic written all over it.

Canadian Press

Night Cars goes right to the heart of little children...Bliss, but not treacle.

Globe and Mail

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