On This Special Night Review

TITLE: On This Special Night
AUTHOR: Claire Freedman
ILLUSTRATOR: Simon Mendez
PUB DATE: September 2009

From the Publisher
On a silent winter’s night, one star burns brighter than all the rest. “That must be a special star,” Mother Cat whispers. When Little Kitten and Mother Cat join the animals journeying toward the starry light, they discover that it is a special star indeed shining with peace, love, and joy on this very special night.

MICHAEL’S THOUGHTS:
I have to first start off and say that the illustrations are truly beautiful in this book. Some of the paintings are so life like that you just want to reach in and touch the animals.

The story is about a little kitten who is having a hard time to fall asleep because of the stars. The mother cat tells the kitten its special star. They are interrupted by a donkey looking for water and he tells them he is on a special journey.

A lamb cames in next looking to sleep on the hay. The lamb too is on a special journey. The kitten asks the lamb why is the star so bright and do you know why? The lamb knows and tells the kitten about the star but before the lamb can tell the kitten they were interrupted by three mice. unfortunetly the lamb had to leave.

The kitten is curious to know about the star is hoping to find out about it when a cow and calf come in looking for food. All that they will tell the kitten is that is a special night and that they should follow them. Up on the roof that kitten and cat see three camels in the night.

They follow their new friends down the hill and stumble upon a manger with a baby inside.

The only downside of the book is that it doesn’t go into more detail so you have to fill it in but over all Michael enjoyed the book and he looks at it all the time.

Thanks to Scholastic Canada for sending us this great book.

A finished copy of this book was provided for us to read and review from Scholastic Canada.

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