Good-night Blessing Book

by Nancy Willard

Comforting verse and soothing folk-art pictures of angels are designed to be enjoyed at bedtime. By the author of An Alphabet of Angels and The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1996

About the author

NANCY WILLARD was an award-winning children's author, poet, and essayist who received the Newbery Medal in 1982 for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She wrote dozens of volumes of children's fiction and poetry, including The Flying Bed, Sweep Dreams, and Cinderella's Dress. She also authored two novels for adults, Things Invisible to See and Sister Water, and twelve books of poetry, including Swimming Lessons: New and Selected Poems. She lived with her husband, photographer Eric Lindbloom, and taught at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sorry, Ms. Willard, but this was just strange.

The blessing, the words, were very nice. But the photos, the various posed angels and such, were just plain weird. And maybe a little creepy.

[Jacqui Lynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

The bedtime prayer or blessing was sweet but the photographs of the angels were creepy. They weren't even pictures of nice looking angels, just ugly figurines blown up to huge color photos.

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Over twenty years old, I discovered this through a recommendation from a friend. Nancy Willard photographs created twenty scenes of angels, all manner of angels, in folk-like scenes, and they accompany her blessing poem for saying good night. It is a lovely poem of things to be thankful for. For example, "Bless open windows,/ doors that sing,/ rooms that invite/ the forest in."