The Night Garden - Elise Hurst

The Night Garden
Elise Hurst
(ABC Books, 2007)

On a long rainy day Sally and her cat Strange sit at the bedroom window waiting for something to happen. Sally draws on the window "first tracing the trees, then changing the trees...". That night something magical happens and the garden is brought to life. Her garden.

Shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year 2008 - Early Childhood and Notable Book in Early Childhood and Picture Book categories

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"I was reminded of two classics, Tom Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat, and Where the Wild Things are, as I read this new tale..." Pat Pleger, ReadPlus
"A gorgeous picture book full of imagination and magic...An absolute treasure of a book for children." review, femail.com.au

Shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year 2008 - Early Childhood and Notable Book in Early Childhood and Picture Book categories

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"Sally and Strange watched the rain all day.
Cobwebs sagged and bushes bowed and even the neat trees were tired of it."

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"Slowly the moon rose over the garden, shining odd-ways and side-ways and
finally out-ways through Sally's window."

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"Tiptoe, tipoe, down the staris.
Past the edge of here and there."

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"The garden grew... and grew..."
he handed LuLu some old drawings."

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"A-WROOOO"

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"And off they ran
through starlit paths
wound round and round..."

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"All around the queer night wind
blew cold-ways, up-ways and sly-ways"

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"Quick as a wink they slipped and slid, racing down across the moon, over and under and round and round..."

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