Bright Night: The Story of Anne Bradstreet

by Nancy Wilson, Louise Brewer (Illustrator)

A story for young children about Anne Bradstreet and her poems, published as the first book of original poetry in colonial America.

31 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Nancy Wilson (née Greensides) is the wife of Pastor Douglas Wilson, mother of N.D. Wilson, Rebekah Merkle, and Rachel Jankovic, and grandmother of seventeen who are (as yet) unpublished. She lives in northern Idaho.

Reviews

[M]

Perhaps a decent phonics book (though I don't see the merit in teaching the archaic spelling of "rime" to elementary school students). Halfway communicates the life, work, and significance of Bradstreet.
Celebrates Bradstreet's piety. For the Evangelical crowd--not for public school libraries.
Talk about her contributions, but not her inner conflicts. Uses the old narrative of not knowing her work was going to be published--this is considered incorrect by modern scholars.
I do not care for these illustrations.

[Jessica]

This might be my favorite reader now in the Phonics Museum series. It probably helps that I love Anne Bradstreet... and I love her even more now with all that we learned about her. We also read some poems about her children and the burning house which helped to drive home the points we learned too. So, good. The illustrations were probably not my favorite but still good.

[Maggie]

It was sad that the babies died, it even made me cry. It was good that she wrote poems about God.

[Karen]

Veritas Press Phonics

[Mark Nenadov]

A good children’s book about one of America’s earliest prolific poets, Anne Bradstreet.