Emberley, Michael. Night Light. Michael Emberley, Illus. I Like to Read Comics. Holiday House, 04/2025. [32]pp. Reader. Trade $14.99. 978-0-8234-5816-5. GRADES Kindergarten–2. HIGH ADDITIONAL.
Part of the I Like to Read Comics series of early readers, the power goes out while a parent and child are reading a book that resembles Ed Emberley’s Go Away, Big Green Monster! (Little Brown, 1992). To deal with the problem, the parent gathers stars from the night sky and brings them indoors to illuminate their home. The parent and child are not human, but pajama-wearing beings with horns who live in a regular house. The book design features multi-paneled, digital, full-color artwork with dialogue balloons, reflecting the goal of resembling a comic book. This is the third book using these characters, including I Did It! (2022) and Let’s Go! (2023), and will serve as a stepping stone to graphic novels.
Penny Peck—San José State University, iSchool