Dark Emperor is a unique book with a collection of poems of the night. The book received a 2011 Newbery Honor Award. This unusual book contains a set of poems about animal life at night, known as nocturnal life. Every few pages or so, there is information about different nocturnal animals that are fact oriented and designed to instruct the reader. The poem "Welcome to the Night" opens the 12 poem book. The author features nine different animals and even mushrooms that thrive at nightime. The poems are eloquent and beautiful and at times philosophical. Not only does the book contain beautiful poetry, but artwork that is majestic, dark, and bold. The interesting combination of nightime and poetry invites the reader to slow down, relax, and celebrate the wonder of the night, something that few poeple do in our fast paced world. I believe that the combination of non-fiction elements with the artistic element of poetry gives makes this book more widely appealing. This book would be an excellent book to read to teach about nocturnal animals in science or poetry in language arts. Judging poetry is very subjective, but I must say that it appeals to me and I think it would to most people, even children. I can see why this book was a Newbery Honor Book.
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