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Firefly Night
After listening to this peaceful lullaby, children will drift gently off to sleep with visions of the nighttime forest. A young Chippawa girl asks her glowing friend, Wah-wah-taysee, the firefly, to guide her through the darkened forest to her cradle and to her dreams. Readers will share the little girl's sense of wonder and respect for nature as she and Wah-wah-taysee explore the forest and greet the animals of the night. The wolf, the fox, the owl, and others meet them along their path. Then, after seeing her safely home, the firefly softly glows in the child's dreams of the nighttime forest. Marty Husted's warm color pencil and watercolor illustrations enfold young readers and listeners in velvet comfort. The darkened forest and the nighttime animals are beautifully detailed in the pages of FIREFLY NIGHT.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published August 28, 2000
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May 14, 2008
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I love how this book uses one Chippewa word repeatedly and explains what this word means right away. This word is also used in the poem by Longfellow. Wah-wah-taysee is the word for fire-fly. I like it how this word has see in it and in fact the fire-fly is helping the little girl see so that she can make it home. The story reads like a poem and there is a lot of rhyme and great rhythm. I especially like the text on the last page, And now I’ve reached my sleeping place, shine your sweet light upon my face, then fly into my dreams with me, wah-wah-taysee, wah-wah-taysee.
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This book would be a great bedtime story read at home. I would also read this book in a story hour. If there was a theme about fire-flies this book would be an excellent choice or for a them on Native-Americans.
I love how this book uses one Chippewa word repeatedly and explains what this word means right away. This word is also used in the poem by Longfellow. Wah-wah-taysee is the word for fire-fly. I like it how this word has see in it and in fact the fire-fly is helping the little girl see so that she can make it home. The story reads like a poem and there is a lot of rhyme and great rhythm. I especially like the text on the last page, And now I’ve reached my sleeping place, shine your sweet light upon my face, then fly into my dreams with me, wah-wah-taysee, wah-wah-taysee.
Recommended Uses for the Book:
This book would be a great bedtime story read at home. I would also read this book in a story hour. If there was a theme about fire-flies this book would be an excellent choice or for a them on Native-Americans.
June 15, 2012
Sweet story that takes off of Longfellow's Hiawatha poem and shows us how the fireflies lead a little girl through the woods seeing a variety of animals to her bed at night. Loved the repetitive use of wah-wah-taysee, a Chippewa word for firefly. Nice illustrations accompany this book.
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