All Around Bustletown: Nighttime

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Bustletown's many fans will delight in this nocturnal return trip, which finds the village's beloved people, animals, and streetscapes as fun and busy as ever. No matter what time of year, the inhabitants of Bustletown are busy working, walking, playing, eating, making music, exercising, and shopping. Now, even though it's nighttime, the fun hasn't stopped. Just as Berner's previous explorations of the town have brilliantly evoked the sights and colors of the seasons, here she bathes the town in shimmering darkness that throws evening activities into fascinating relief. Seven colourful and incredibly detailed spreads take readers inside a multi-generational house, a farm, a railway station, a community centre, a marketplace, a department store, and a park with a lake. Readers will return again and again to these pages to discover everything that takes place in Bustletown during the late hours: a burglar tries to break into the dental office, the bookshop features "books for a good night," fireworks explode above the lake, and a slumber party is raging in the library. And as they search on each page for their favorite returning characters, they'll create their own stories about all the things you can do after the sun sets. AGES: 2 to 5 AUTHOR: Rotraut Susanne Berner is an award-winning illustrator of several books and book covers for children, including the Bustletown series, which has been published to wide acclaim in fifteen countries. She lives in Munich, Germany. SELLING POINTS: . The characters in this book reappear on every page and in every book of this series, so children get to know and love all the different characters. . Each page is filled with hundreds of details that can be discovered, which allows for hours of enjoyment. . This book is similar to Richard Scarry's books Busy, Busy Town, What Do People Do All Day, etc. in that it is filled with minute details that kids can notice with each reading and go back to again and again.

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ROTRAUT SUSANNE BERNER is an award-winning illustrator of many books for children, including the Bustletown series, which has been published to wide acclaim in fifteen countries. She lives in Munich, Germany.