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Jack and the Night Visitors
Join the adventures of Jack and the freckle-faced boy in this charming wordless pictorial narrative that's perfect for prereaders. Jack and the boy receive a late-night visit from very unique guests, but no one would ever believe the story. The boy tries to trap one, but it's clear that his guests do not want to stay! This compelling book introduces preliterate children to elements of story—such as character, setting, and action—enabling them to better understand language when they begin to read words.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published March 3, 2006
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February 16, 2011
Beginning immediately on the cover and cover pages, this wordless picture book tells the tale of a Jack the dog, and a little boy who have night visitors from outer space. These aliens, who are more like robots, play with the things in the little boy’s room. Soon, they become hungry, and the boy shares a snack with them. Eventually, it is time to go, and the boy attempts to keep one of the robots in a jar as a keepsake. Nonetheless, Jack steps in to rescue the robot, and allows him to return to his spaceship with the rest of his alien friends.
This book is appropriate for preschool and kindergarten students. With no words, it allows them to explore plot specifically. Opportunities could be given to allow students to write the story to go with the pictures, or use the pictures to practice sequence of events. The illustrations are colorful and descriptive. In almost all of the pictures, the expressions on the characters’ faces (Jack, the boy, and the robots), explains what is happening and how each character feels. There are four other books in the Jack series - http://www.patschories.com/jackMain.php. “These books will be endlessly useful for encouraging careful observation, language development, sequencing, plot development, and ultimately, a love of books and reading.”
This book is appropriate for preschool and kindergarten students. With no words, it allows them to explore plot specifically. Opportunities could be given to allow students to write the story to go with the pictures, or use the pictures to practice sequence of events. The illustrations are colorful and descriptive. In almost all of the pictures, the expressions on the characters’ faces (Jack, the boy, and the robots), explains what is happening and how each character feels. There are four other books in the Jack series - http://www.patschories.com/jackMain.php. “These books will be endlessly useful for encouraging careful observation, language development, sequencing, plot development, and ultimately, a love of books and reading.”
September 17, 2019
This book had a very interesting story line that is good for all pre-readers! The story is clear to the point where the illustrations do not need any help from words. It is about a little boy and his dog that good visitors through his window (they look like little tin-men). The facial expressions of the main character shows the excitement.
November 1, 2018
A child's picture book. Jack can't sleep. And then the shipful of alien robots comes to call. A wordless story told in pictures, the wonderful illustrations carry us along on a fun and thought-provoking journey.
May 14, 2018
Cute and wordless
April 24, 2008
This is a wonderfully expressive story and it is easy to forget that there are no words! Jack (a dog) and his boy wake to find a spaceship of aliens on the roof. As the story progresses, the reader can follow the boy's feelings as they go from alarm to disbelief to excitement. The illustrations of Jack and the tiny aliens are just as evocative of a range feelings. This book will appeal to toddlers and pre-schoolers. Jack and the Night Visitors is the third in a series of wordless books.
CIP Summary:
None. From the book jacket: "Jack and the boy receive a late-night visit by unique guests who love to play."
Horn Book Magazine:
(Preschool) In their third wordless book (Breakfast for Jack and Jack and the Missing Piece, rev. 1/05), a boy and his dog Jack meet some friendly space aliens one night. The humorous details in the art (the spaceship looks like a VW bug without tires), the story's brief suspense, and the book's small trim size make this exactly right for pre-readers to ""read"" to an adult or enjoy on their own.
From Booklist:
PreS-K. After seeing a strange light through the bedroom window, Jack the\b \b0 dog and his boy discover that a little spaceship has landed on the roof outside their window. A crew of tiny, jolly robotlike aliens soon make themselves at home in the boy's room, and the earthbound hosts overcome their initial trepidation as they feed the curious creatures and watch them explore. This wordless picture book offers colorful illustrations that have a lucid narrative thread as well as many rewarding details.
CIP Summary:
None. From the book jacket: "Jack and the boy receive a late-night visit by unique guests who love to play."
Horn Book Magazine:
(Preschool) In their third wordless book (Breakfast for Jack and Jack and the Missing Piece, rev. 1/05), a boy and his dog Jack meet some friendly space aliens one night. The humorous details in the art (the spaceship looks like a VW bug without tires), the story's brief suspense, and the book's small trim size make this exactly right for pre-readers to ""read"" to an adult or enjoy on their own.
From Booklist:
PreS-K. After seeing a strange light through the bedroom window, Jack the\b \b0 dog and his boy discover that a little spaceship has landed on the roof outside their window. A crew of tiny, jolly robotlike aliens soon make themselves at home in the boy's room, and the earthbound hosts overcome their initial trepidation as they feed the curious creatures and watch them explore. This wordless picture book offers colorful illustrations that have a lucid narrative thread as well as many rewarding details.
February 14, 2012
Jack and the Night Visitors by Pat Schories is a wordless picture book telling the story of Jack, a dog and his boy. One night there a little robot visitors that come through the boy’s window in a small flying ship. They come into the boy’s room to play. Seeing that one of their other worldly guest is hungry, Jack and the boy sneak downstairs to get them some snacks. While they play, the boy decides that he would like to keep one of the visitors, so he puts him in a jar, causing mass confusion among the other small robots. It’s Jack to the rescue in the end, interfering on the part of the trapped robot, enabling them to safely get back on their ship and head home.
Because this is a wordless picture book, all comprehension of the story and plot relies on the illustrations. The reader must take into consideration the characters’ facial expressions as well as their body language to understand the storyline. Pat Schories has written other wordless picture books featuring Jack and the boy. This is an enjoyable book to read even though it doesn’t have text, the pictures are detailed and engaging enough to carry the story. It would probably be best used with younger students, preschool through kindergarten or even first grade to teach story plot or prediction strategies. I could even see using this text with ESL students in order to have them practice story telling skills, or as a writing activity.
Because this is a wordless picture book, all comprehension of the story and plot relies on the illustrations. The reader must take into consideration the characters’ facial expressions as well as their body language to understand the storyline. Pat Schories has written other wordless picture books featuring Jack and the boy. This is an enjoyable book to read even though it doesn’t have text, the pictures are detailed and engaging enough to carry the story. It would probably be best used with younger students, preschool through kindergarten or even first grade to teach story plot or prediction strategies. I could even see using this text with ESL students in order to have them practice story telling skills, or as a writing activity.
August 23, 2008
Genre:Wordless Picture Book
Awards: none
Jack and the Night Visitors is a wordless picture book with great illustrations that tells the story of some little aliens that come to visit Jack one night. It begins when Jack and his dog see a bright light outside the bedroom window. A group of tiny, happy aliens park their space ship on the roof, hop in Jack's room, and begin playing with all of his toys. Jack likes the aliens so much that he decides he wants to keep one. He empties out a jar on his desk and puts one of the little creatures inside. The alien and all of its friends are terrified though. The other aliens all run frantically out of the window. When Jack attempts to take his alien out of the jar, it breaks free and runs out the window with the rest. In the end, all though Jack may be a little sad, it is obvious that he and his dog enjoyed their little visitors.
Activities:
1. After looking at the illustrations of the book as a class, students could create their own words to go along with the story and then share them with the class.
2. Students could create their own wordless picture book and share them with the class.
Awards: none
Jack and the Night Visitors is a wordless picture book with great illustrations that tells the story of some little aliens that come to visit Jack one night. It begins when Jack and his dog see a bright light outside the bedroom window. A group of tiny, happy aliens park their space ship on the roof, hop in Jack's room, and begin playing with all of his toys. Jack likes the aliens so much that he decides he wants to keep one. He empties out a jar on his desk and puts one of the little creatures inside. The alien and all of its friends are terrified though. The other aliens all run frantically out of the window. When Jack attempts to take his alien out of the jar, it breaks free and runs out the window with the rest. In the end, all though Jack may be a little sad, it is obvious that he and his dog enjoyed their little visitors.
Activities:
1. After looking at the illustrations of the book as a class, students could create their own words to go along with the story and then share them with the class.
2. Students could create their own wordless picture book and share them with the class.
July 5, 2012
What a cute little story. I like that it was all told through the pictures. An alien space shit is coming down out of the sky. Jack is sleeping, when a strange light suddenly awakes him in his room. He goes to the window with his dog and they see aliens. They come into his room and start playing with his toys. One motions that he is hungry so Jack rushes downstairs and brings back cereal and a bowl. The aliens eat the cereal and continue to play and relax. He wants to keep one so he empties the pens from a jar and captures one in the jar. The rest of the visitors run away in fear, back out the window to their ship. He realizes that he really shouldn't trap the alien and releases it. He tries to get them to come back but they have already disappeared. The little aliens looked like robots I liked that they were using his little toys. There were so many and they were all doing something different. You got the whole story without one word being uttered. I liked its simplicity. It was also a quick read. The pictures were fuzzy and a bit surreal. Ages 0-3
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June 25, 2011 Using an engaging wordless style, Jack and the Night Visitors tells the story of friendly but mischievous creatures from space visiting a boy and his trusty canine Jack. When the boy wants one of the visitors to stay Jack comes to the rescue. Children will enjoy the humor and detail in the colorful illustrations. This book would be useful for pre-readers to tell the story in their own words. Jack and the Night Visitors is the third book that follows Jack and his boy—interested readers would also enjoy Breakfast for Jack and Jack and the Missing Piece.
February 14, 2010
Pat Schories wordless picturebook Jack and the Night Visitors is a delightful book for preschool to kindergarten students. The story centers around Jack and his cute puppy that are visited one night by tin robots from space. Hilarity ensues as the night visitors get into everything from Jack's drawers to food, leading Jack to try and capture one of the night visitors to keep as a pet. The illustrations add to this wordless book and it is a must have for a primary school class library.
June 24, 2014
My five-year-old son picked this book out from the library last week. This house looked so much like ours, right down to the green kitchen and the sleeping grey cat, we knew that the little boy's name must have been Thomas.
Thomas (my Thomas) loves all things robots and space related, and he very often does not fall right to sleep at night. He had no difficulty in relating to this adorably-drawn wordless picture book.
Thomas (my Thomas) loves all things robots and space related, and he very often does not fall right to sleep at night. He had no difficulty in relating to this adorably-drawn wordless picture book.
July 15, 2011
This wordless picture book is excellent for my boys who aren't yet reading. We can change the story up every time we read it to create something new. I felt the illustrations were very good and expressions on the faces of the characters conveyed feeling and meaning quite handily.
October 2, 2008
Matthew loves this book, and I think the illustrations are adorable, I just wish had words.
September 27, 2013
It's amazing how such a simple story can speak volumes!
April 21, 2017
Tiny spacemen visit Jack and his boy. Things are going swimmingly until the boy goes all lightning-bug-in-a-jar with one of the aliens. If you love something . . . set it free, boy.
Even Sting knows that.
Even Sting knows that.
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