Night Lights & Pillow Fights Two: The Box Set

by Guy Gilchrist (Illustrator)

The award winning author and illustrator of 40 children's books, Guy Gilchrist, brings you Night Lights & Pillow Fights The Box Set . This fun-packed collection of stories, rhymes, and limericks, packed with illustrations has something for everyone. Enjoyed by kids 8 to 88, this book is written with wit, whimsy and good healthy doses of love and tenderness. On April 25, 1998, the National Cartoonist's Society presented Guy with the prestigious Reuben Award in the category of Best Book & Magazine Illustrations in 1997 for his illustrations in his Night Lights books.

Hardcover

Published October 1, 1997

About the author

Guy Gilchrist (born January 30, 1957 in Connecticut) is an American cartoonist, country musician, animator, songwriter and comics artist. He has worked on Your Angels Speak, Night Lights & Pillow Fights, Screams, The Poetry Guy, The Muppets and The Rock Channel. Between 1995 and 2018 he continued the comics Nancy and also had another comic strip named Today's Dogg.

Gilchrist started his career in the late 1970s with Superkernel Comics, a monthly comic book published by Weekly Reader Publishing in Middletown, Connecticut. He also created the comic strip Mudpie.

He has designed logos for Minor League baseball teams, including the Portland Sea Dogs, Norwich Navigators, and New Britain Rock Cats, and also designed the J. League football team Shimizu S-Pulse's mascot, Palchan.

He won the National Cartoonist Society Magazine Award for 1988 and 1994, and was nominated for their Book Illustration Award for 1987 and 1993.

On January 2, 2018, Gilchrist announced that after 22 years, his last Nancy strip would be February 18, 2018.

His brother is Brad Gilchrist, who he has frequently collaborated with.

Reviews

[Cristi-Lael · Rating 2 out of 5]

Um, the art was really cute in this, but I found the poetry lacking quite a bit. It was pretty apparent that his style is very similar to Shel Silverstien, whom I loved to read growing up. But this book just feel short, for me. I found several poems trying entirely too hard to be clever or funny and they didn't quite make it. All too often they started out well, but then felt rushed at the end, or they felt like the author forced the round peg into the square hole. Plus, there were countless times where the rhythm of the poems were off for a single line, which is a pet peeve of mine. I believe poetry should be read out loud, and it's so annoying to read these poems out loud to my daughters and constantly having to stumble over poor poetic rhythm.

[Melinda Christensen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A silly, whimsical book of poetry written for children by Guy Gilchrist. He does his own illustrations, in fact, he has been the syndicated cartoonist behind "Nancy" and "Jim Henson's Muppets." You all might recognize this one:

I'M GREAT!
I'm great! I'm marvelous! I'm terrific! Yessiree!
I'm the very best there is at the job of being ME!
Just ask anybody! Anybody that I know!
They'll tell you I'm the very best!
The best me that they know!
I look like ME! I laugh like ME!
I even talk like ME!
I run like ME! Have fun like ME!
I even walk like ME!
I'm incredible! Fantastic!
I'm fantabulous, it's true!
I'm the best me I can be,
And you're the best YOU, too!

I had a jolly good time reading these books, and am looking forward to reading his other award-winning books as well.

[Catherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars. Great art and cute poems for kids

[wendy · Rating 3 out of 5]

fantastic illustrations. cute poems. by far my favorite is "the rainbow man" 🧡