September 30, 2015

Nighttime Ninja Halloween Pumpkin and Costume!


Nighttime Ninja goes trick-or-treating. Found on Pinterest.
Here's someone's creative rendition of Nighttime Ninja into a Halloween pumpkin. Carving a design is also not too difficult. Draw the design on the pumpkin with a pencil. Cut the top of the pumpkin out, scoop out the seeds and fiber (clean off the seeds and toast them for a delicious treat). Then, carefully cut out the design with a sharp knife. For master pumpkin-carving, see David LaRochelle's website for samples and a video of how he does complex designs (he's the author of Moo, one of Ninja's favorite books).

If you're already planning to go trick-or-treating as Nighttime Ninja yourself you can easily create your own ninja costume: black pants, black shirt, and a dark kerchief around your head or balaclava (but remember, though, to add something reflective or light-colored (like a wide sash) for safety if you're going to be crossing streets).


June 03, 2015

Nighttime Ninja in Top Ten in Big Ten Michigan

Nighttime Ninja makes the top ten list in a book-loving Michigan school library! "There’s just no stopping this book. I’ve talked about its (appropriately) sneaky popularity before, and it continues," as reported in School Library Journal's blog 100scopenotes.
Among the top ten are some of our favorite books, too: Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown, The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers, Mr. Wuffles! by David Wiesner, and the Pete the Cat books by James Dean. 

April 20, 2015

Nighttime Ninja artist Ed Young "Should You Be a River" and "Bird and Diz"

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Nighttime Ninja's illustrator Ed Young has been busy this year! Should You Be a River (Little, Brown), a touching poem he wrote for his daughters, is the subject of a recent New York Times review. Bird and Diz by Gary Goglio, is a magical book about the friendship of two great musicians. Publishers Weekly wrote: "Young (Nighttime Ninja) draws this homage to Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker not on pages that turn, but on one long piece of stiff paper folded accordion-style, echoing the long, flowing phrases played by the inventors of bebop...."
Ed's artwork for Bird and Diz will be the subject of an art show June 13-August 1, 2015 at the Chappaqua Library in New York: Ed Young: Diz & Bird – Illusrations from Creative Process to Finished Book.

April 13, 2015

Soundtrack to Nighttime Ninja

Watch this spectacularly creative Indiana classroom's soundtrack for Nighttime Ninja!


See our Activities page for more fun things to do based on Nighttime Ninja!

March 20, 2015

View Nighttime Ninja artist Ed Young talking about his books and creative process for Lon Po Po, Beyond the Mountain, Sadoko, and others at TeachingBooks.net. He also explains and pronounces his Chinese name.

August 26, 2014

February 03, 2014

Nighttime Ninja Now Available in Japanese


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We're pleased to announce that Nighttime Ninja is now available in Japanese through Mitsumura Educational Company! The translation has been praised as being "highly literary."