Books like The Way Home in the Night
By Akiko Miyakoshi
For the child who isn't quite ready to close their eyes on the world outside, this book lingers in that hush between awake and asleep. Quiet, dreamlike, softly mysterious, hushed
On a late winter night, a young girl and her father walk silently into snowy woods, calling into the darkness in hopes that a real owl will answer back.
A young girl and her grandfather watch night after night for a barn owl, hoping its distinctive heart-shaped face will appear at their window.
A little boy asks his mother where the wind goes when it stops, and together they trace how endings in nature — rain, waves, day — are really just beginnings somewhere else.
A wide-awake little girl asks her parents whether everything in the world goes to sleep, and finds her own way to settle down warm and strong, like a tiger.
A mother in Thailand moves quietly through the house, hushing a lizard, a monkey, a water buffalo, and other creatures one by one so her sleeping baby won't wake.
An old bear settles into his cave for winter sleep and dreams he's a cub again, wandering through summer, fall, winter, and spring before waking to a world as beautiful as his dream.
An ordinary donkey carries the Virgin Mary across the desert to Bethlehem, dreaming along the way that he bears a city, a ship, a fountain, a rose — and a lady full of heaven.
A parent shares a string of tender wishes for a child — to find wonder in flying birds, to know love as vast and constant as the moon loves the sky.
A six-year-old boy spends his days in his grandfather Luis's towering garden, learning bird names, playful expressions, and reading and writing from a grandfather who never had schooling of his own.
Smoke itself speaks in riddles, describing how it has signaled, flavored, healed, and mattered to people across centuries — from ancient fires to sacred ceremonies.
A New England farmer loads his ox-cart with everything his family made all year — wool, a shawl, mittens, birch brooms — and travels to Portsmouth Market to sell it all, even his ox, before heading home to start again.
Two children spend a summer on a rocky Maine island, watching rain, fog, and sailing days pass by — until a sudden hurricane sweeps through before the family packs up to leave.
