Night Driving

A wonderful and lighthearted journey of father and son as they take a night trip driving to the mountains to go camping. The illustrations express beautifully the muted night and all of its wonders while driving at night. I can can relate and remember driving cross country with my father and stopping for late night early morning breakfast at the vintage diners, ordering pigs in a blanket. Many a child will be able to relate to this tale of father and son and the bestowing of traditional values in America. I believe this particular book is written with a Midwestern mindset and Americana, as where else can you stop the car on a straightaway with open prairies abound and stare at the moonlight. Either way, the expressive muted night show more illustrations of the moon, hills, diner, and mountains gives an almost surreal picture of a child's rural midwestern upbringing, but not any taste of suburban, or urban life. show less

A father and son drive into the night. As the sky turns shades of deep blue and purple they watch for night animals, swap baseball stories, and keep a lookout for eighteen wheelers. But they have miles to go before they can sleep, and it's a real challenge to stay awake for a whole night of driving.

Celebrating the relationship between a father and his son, John Coy's spare, poetic text and Peter McCarty's striking black-and-white drawings (complete with gas pumps, cafes, and truck stops) capture the warmth and nostalgia of a very special road trip.

A father and son drive into the night. As the sky turns shades of deep blue and purple they watch for night animals, swap baseball stories, and keep a lookout for eighteen wheelers. But they have miles to go before they can sleep, and it's a real challenge to stay awake for a whole night of driving.

Celebrating the relationship between a father and his son, John Coy's spare, poetic text and Peter McCarty's striking black-and-white drawings (complete with gas pumps, cafes, and truck stops) capture the warmth and nostalgia of a very special road trip.

One of my all-time favorite picture books. The language and the illustration, the story, the tone ... this is one of those perfectly crafted books. Whenever we're out driving late at night, listening to baseball on the radio, I think about this book. My mother and I used to listen to games on the road ... it's a good experience for sharing.

This book illustrates a boy's nighttime car ride with his father—and at that young of an age, a nighttime car ride is fascinating. The real treat here is the illustrations; the pencil drawings are simple yet highly detailed, and the fact that it's in black and white really helps to show that it is indeed nighttime.

John Coy and his father are going to camp in the mountains, but they need to do some night driving to get there. I liked this book because it was meaningful to the author and it was true. This book reminded me of night driving with my dad and mom.

This book is about a father and a son going on a trip to the Mountains and they drive at night. I this book because I have done some night driving with my family. I would use this book in my classroom because the students can relate to it from other trips they gone on. This book would be great for fourth and fifth graders.