And while the people dream of daytime things, the nighttime world awakens. Go to the window. Across the field a light glows. Lyrical text and velvety pictures present a different kind of nighttime. A mysterious, moving night that will lull small children to sleep.
Crow asks for help.
Children will always discover something new in these pictures. When a taste for pancakes strikes, there is no better place to be than on a farm. Fresh milk and eggs are only a few steps out the door. Soon all the ingredients will add up to a delicious stack of pancakes. Shan learns a hard lesson in honesty when he finds that a chocolate bar and a lemon pop gotten by trying to pass off damaged merchandise to the neighborhood shopkeeper does not taste as sweet as he thought it would.