Daybreak, Nightfall

by Jorge Luján

Day and night, life and death are often seen as opposites. But they can also be understood as a continuum, one containing the other. Both ideas are expressed in these evocative poems by Jorge Elias Lujan. "An Apple in the Apple Orchard" describes a young boy and girl in the early morning playing hide-and-seek among the trees. "Pale as a Bone" places the same children on a carousel ride where a "Lady-as-Pale-as-a-Bone" is trying to choose whom to take...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888994869
• ISBN13: 9780888994868
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher