Unexpressed with words, and yet loudest of all, is its emotional undertone of love, companionship and admiration. Night Job is, at first glance, a story about a boy and his father going to work. This book could be used to open a conversation about community workers, father-son bonding, the different types of jobs people do, and how not everyone works during the day.
What a great way to encourage families to spend time together, even if it is while working. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review) An intoxicating blend of special adventure and one-to-one Dad time, this would be an interesting partner to Phi’s father-son outing in A Different Pond (BCCB 9/17). Karas’ mixed-media art has his familiar grainy colored pencil lines and cozy homemade flair the play with light is particularly impressive, as doorways and lamps softly spill light areas into the slatey night that gradually warms to a taupey morning.
Recommended for all picture book shelves.Ī young boy relates his experiences accompanying his father, a school custodian, to work in this eloquent, lovely picture book.Karas' charming, fine-lined artwork, in panels and full-page spreads, uses a soft, muted palette as well as careful shadows and light to highlight both their nighttime routine and the sweet affection of a special father-son relationship. Simultaneously muted but alive with detail, this title offers an extraordinary glimpse into an endearing father-son relationship, a livelihood, and an ordinary life.
Hesse captures a hushed, childlike wonder at a boy’s father’s evening custodial job, while Karas’s quiet, powerful illustrations command a palette of grays and play with illumination to emphasize the details: an orange basketball, the green library sofa, or the brightness of the dream ocean in the book’s last spread. Karas' mixed-media illustrations, employing a soft focus and a muted, nighttime palette, help to relay this bond as well as the excitement of riding on the back of a motorcycle at night.An endearing story conveying a satisfying sense of a job well done. Hesse's poetic, calm text is matter-of-fact in conveying the love between parent and child and the bonding occurring through their shared work. He’s added an extraordinary dignity and tenderness to this picture of working-parent reality and a loving, physically close father-son bond. Karas’s dusky paneled art gives a feel of enchantment and adventure as the boy sweeps floors, shoots hoops, reads and falls asleep while Dad finishes working.
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