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The Way Home in the Night

Visually, it’s a really cool book.  The illustrations use light and shadow to great effect as the story tells of a little rabbit being carried home through the city at night, describing all he sees in the windows they pass, and what he wonders about his neighbors.  But you need to be careful about your patron population if you’re going to choose to put it on your shelves.  I really like most of the book, except the last sentence: “But every night, we all go home to bed.”  I’ve worked too long with kids in poverty to believe this to be true, and I worry about the child reading it who doesn’t get to go home to a bed every night.