In the Night Garden: The Bedtime Book

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In the Night Garden is one of the most unique books that I've read in a long time; it's a book that you read for the stories and the prose, a book in which to meander, not a plot-dominated book that keeps you up at night with non-stop action. Valente's writing is flowery and imaginative, but purposeful. She chooses her words carefully and does not write for the sake of putting words down on paper. It takes a while to get used to the flow and rhythm of her prose, but once you do, you lose yourself in her words and stories, just like the little prince who loses himself in the girl's tales. The Manikarnika were seven sisters, and when they were gnawed from the flesh of the Mare, they were Stones. Jade, Granite and Opal, Garnet and Shale and Iron Ore and little Diamond, pale as a milk-soaked paw."

Yeah, well, I’m glad that you’re asking it again because I think, on the face, it’s a good night book, right? It’s sort of a nighttime night story. So, I guess I just really do hope that the message of facing the unknown isn’t so buried that it doesn’t get noticed. I hope that comes through somehow.

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Yes. And she’s a beautiful guide. So, you create your artwork with cut paper to make collages, and each piece is handmade with found ephemera. Will you share your process with us, including how you find the just right scraps of paper and materials? How long does each piece take you? I love that. And just the way you said that, so simply too. It’s beautiful. Well, Carin, it’s been so lovely to chat with you voice-to-voice once again. I've read parts of The Arabian Night about thirty years ago. In the Night Garden succeeds in recapturing that sense of wonder, of exploring incredibly rich, exotic cities, meeting fantastic creatures, magicians, kings and vagabonds, sailing to mythical shores or descending into mysterious caverns. And Catherynne Valente managed this without copying or borrowing from the original tales. With subtlety, grace, and perfection, Berger creates a goodnight book for the ages. I like it better for a modern audience than Goodnight Moon.”— Anita Silvey, former Editor-in-Chief of The Horn Book The specials centre on a brand new character called the Zonk, who sends the characters off to the magical world of the ZonkeyZoney so they can relax in peace. The series is fully animated in 3D CGI animation, unlike the original series which was a mix of CGI, 2D animation and live-action.

A succession of animal dads do their best to teach their young to say “Dada” in this picture-book vehicle for Fallon. So, the cat in the book is a tribute to Cozy, but it’s also, uh, perhaps like a kind, all-seen voice. You know, she’s the narrator in this story, even though she’s not sort of the loud narrator. I think of it as her voice and her shepherding you through the garden and saying, well, look at this. They’re nocturnal. I guess that’s what I have to say about the cat. We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident, nothing more than puddles who stood up and gave each other names...I’m not a hoarder, but I’m a bit of a collector of things, an archivist. Um, so, yeah, I don’t know if that answers—and then I just use scissors and an exacto knife and white glue, like we all have in our house, perhaps. And it’s very rudimentary in that way. Sure. They’re often quite intentional. I don’t have a book. Should have a book in front of me. I don’t. Um, well, one thing that’s always in every single one of my books is Thea, my daughter’s name. T-H-E-A So, um, there was an artist, Al Hirschfeld, when I was little, and he had a daughter named Nina. So, he would do these wonderful ink calligraphic ink drawings, and there would be a number down by his signature, like three or six. And that was how many Ninas were hidden in the calligraphic lines of his drawing. And as a kid, I don’t know. I just loved that. Lane, Harriet (25 November 2007). "Night Fever". The Observer Magazine. Archived from the original on 5 December 2009 . Retrieved 11 January 2010. Here at last is something truly rich and strange - a rarefied dish to cleanse even the most jaded palate. In the Night Garden is a virtuoso feat of storytelling somewhere between Italo Calvino and Arabian Nights that has me wondering over its slyly subversive stories days after I finished.

Teletubbies creators are at it again". 18 April 2007. Archived from the original on 28 December 2021 . Retrieved 28 December 2021. So, if listeners were to take away one thing today from our discussion, what would you want that to be? The show features a large cast of colourful characters with unusual names who live in a magical forest scattered with large daisies and brightly coloured flowers. The characters mostly speak short and repetitive phrases and each one has its own special song and dance. The garden is a sunny and colourful environment and the music is jaunty and music box-like. According to Wood: Brown, Jonathan; Robinson, Josie (18 April 2007). "In the Night Garden: Bedtime for Teletubbies". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 December 2008 . Retrieved 11 January 2010.So, Thea’s name is somewhere in each and every one of my books. And there’s often teas or things like that. And then sometimes there’s just something that I like, like California or where we met or, um, something that resonates a word that kind of resonates. I mean, sometimes it’s random, or sometimes it has to do with where the paper came from, which has meaning to me, but nothing to offer you. But there’s reasons why I’m choosing what I’m choosing. That’s so interesting. Yeah. Um, well, the cat is really a tribute to my daughter’s cat, Cozy—Cosette from Les Mis. Thea was obsessed with Les Mis. So yes, Cosette was a rescue cat that Thea got as a sort of little support animal when she started college. I’ve never had a cat. I have a bunny. She had a bunny growing up. My husband’s allergic to cats, but her cat used to come home in the summer and live with us and the bunny, and they’re fascinating because they have very, well, at least her cat has this very strong clarity that I find interesting. Because sometimes, if you’re out in nature, if you are being loud and busy, you’re not going to catch what nature is trying to show you. And so having this quiet cat sort of gracefully move through the night, obviously a picture book, the only sounds you’re going to hear are the sounds in your head or the sounds of the grown-up reading it to you. And I think because she is a quiet narrator, we get to actually take in and have the sensory experience of what your artwork is showing us and what your words are telling us. I love that you said that.

This book is an Arabian Nights-inspired collection of stories that are nested within each other and cross over in the most unexpected places. The stories are not simple re-workings of old worn-out fairy tales. Now and then you come across a familiar character from Middle-Eastern, Slavic, Asian, or Ancient Greek folklore but they are put in a completely original setting. The writing style in the beginning seems a little purplish with a lot of description but gradually you come to appreciate its vividness as an integral part of the stories and you simply can't put down this book of monster princesses, witches, horse-women, Stars, skin traders, dog-headed monks, Selkies, satyrs, and priestesses. I had all the time in the world; the life of a tree is long. I learned the arts of irrigation and aeration, of the tripartite field and the leaving of the fallow, fertilization and pruning, and the science of grafting. And all the while the pumpkin tree grew, and gave fruit, and wherever I mashed the pulp into the roots of the new trees, they would bear their own fruit all the year. The acres of mud became a forest, an orchard, the loveliest of any that ever grew, and at the center my tree that is me and me that is the tree, and we all grew together, and were happy. Jersey, States of. "Government of Jersey". gov.je. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022 . Retrieved 3 February 2022.On 1 October 2019, the "In the Night Garden Igglepiggle Peek-a-boo Clip-on Toy" made by Golden Bear Toys was recalled due to a possible choking hazard to young children. [16] Live theatrical show [ edit ] I would also argue that the act of giving voice to their experiences through their story-telling is an incredibly important and powerful one: Triplets occurred once in a generation, when the Snake-Star aligned with the Harpoon-Star, and the light of the Pierced Serpent fell on the yellow grass. -- this is a complete mumbo jumbo and I loved it!