Night in the City

A brown-skinned child’s schedule – asleep at night and awake during the day – is juxtaposed with diverse urban workers on the night shift. Lively, cheerful watercolor and colored pencil illustrations showcase a nurse, baker, firefighter, manager, film crew, emergency dispatcher, taxi driver, janitor......more

A nicely written primer reminding young readers that not everyone has a 9 to 5. The illustrations are well-suited to the picture book, which is one of those that falls barely on the side of fiction but truly is more about the realities of night work. I think it could have been even more relatable if......more

Fun to see all the different nighttime jobs. I really appreciate that she made one of the workers a wheelchair user. But…didn’t get the wheelchair quite right. At home, she has a straight up hospital manual chair. And then either it morphs accidentally or she switches to power to go to work, which w......more

A story about what happens in a city at night. The text is long and the illustrations are detailed so it would be better as a one-on-one story. I was concerned of the depiction of Asian faces with either closed eyes or eyes were slanted.......more

A very neat book about many city jobs that occur at night (dispatchers, bakers, janitors, taxi drivers, nurses, and more). The text is good but it is the illustrations that I really love, I love the illustrator's use of color and shadow to highlight our lead characters and various scenes. There's al......more