BY E.B. White
Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Foreword by Martha White
Published by Quill Tree Books
“How surprised I was to see
A duck as wide awake as me.”
Even the most restless reader will find peace and quiet in this breathtakingly illustrated book about the magic of nature, nighttime, and a duck who can’t sleep, based on a poem by the renowned E.B. White which was published in The New Yorker in 1928 and now appears for the first time in book form.
Illuminated by mixed-media artwork of Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet, The Duck Can’t Sleep fills the reader with wonder for the beauty around them and gratitude for the ability to bear witness to it. IndieBound, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, or in your local library.
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““Intricately collaged mixed-media illustrations build on the poem’s mood with variegated blue shades and the occasional magenta or mustard pop, while collaged cut-paper snippets lend an elegant quality to the pages.””
““White’s delicious language infuses this simple encounter with wonder as he describes the fowl’s “negligible wake” and asks if he is pondering problems of his own. …Sweet has a true talent for presenting poems that were never originally intended for children as entirely accessible, even enticing, to young readers.””
““Beautiful artwork accompanied by poignant verse; this posthumous collaboration is a paragon of illustrated poetry.””