This is the second of Walter de la Mare’s poems to be turned into a picture book by Carolina Rabei and her illustrations provide a rich setting. It’s Hallowe’en and ‘Up on their brooms the Witches stream/Crooked and black in the crescent’s gleam’. Sure enough, a line of witches race across the night sky on their broomsticks, while down below a party of jolly trick or treaters set out on their own night’s adventure. The two groups mirror one another, and the lines of the poem work equally for both. The night sky is portrayed in wonderful blues and purples, the centre spread in which the witches surge pell-mell down the Milky Way is particularly beautiful. De la Mare guides his witches through the constellations in his poem, and Rabei illustrates them all, the end papers providing readers with a very special chart of the night sky. ~ Andrea Reece
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Up on their brooms the Witches stream, Crooked and black in the crescent's gleam It's Halloween and a family is preparing to go trick-or-treating. Little do they know that up above them a coven of witches flies unseen through the starry sky...Carolina's stunning illustrations beautifully illuminate Walter de la Mare's thrilling, magical poem, published as a picture book for the first time.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Ride-by-Nights and determined it is suitable for children aged 3-6 years old
The Ride-by-Nights features in the following genres: Featured Books for 3+ readers, Recommendations, Poetry Books for Children, Children’s / Teenage poetry, anthologies, annuals, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Stories in Verse, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Recommended Children's eBooks, Featured Books for 5+ readers
The Ride-by-Nights is available in Paperback
The Ride-by-Nights was written by Walter de la Mare and published by Faber Children's Books an imprint of Faber & Faber
The Ride-by-Nights has 32 pages
Yes it is part of A Faber Picture Book series
£7.19
