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Bright Lights and Summer Nights
  • Published: 19 August 2025
  • ISBN: 9781774883662
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $37.00

Bright Lights and Summer Nights

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Hardback
19 Aug 2025
EBook
27 May 2025
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Take a luminous bedtime journey through the summery dreamworld of a restless baby in this enchanting picture book lullaby. In the tradition of bedtime classics like Goodnight Moon, this gorgeous book with a cloth-like spine is the perfect gift for new parents.

THREE STARRED REVIEWS! • Take a luminous bedtime journey through the summery dreamworld of a restless baby in this enchanting picture book lullaby. In the tradition of bedtime classics like Goodnight Moon, this gorgeous book with a cloth-like spine is the perfect gift for new parents.

Fireflies and mystic moon

Mystic moon and brilliant night

filled with friends and firelight

On a hot summer night, Mother Moon soothes a little star baby who won't go to sleep. With her magic, she spins a warm, lyrical tale of friendship and fun: a dreamy summer evening set beneath a blanket of twinkling stars as children and forest friends with balloons enjoy a country fair with a carousel and caramel apples before taking a fantastical trolley ride to a marvelous, light-filled destination. 

A captivating book, sure to be picked up night after night, that will send all little star babies off to dreamland.
  • Published: 19 August 2025
  • ISBN: 9781774883662
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $37.00
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About the author

Shauntay Grant

SHAUNTAY GRANT is an award-winning author, poet, playwright, interdisciplinary artist, and associate professor of creative writing at Dalhousie University. She is the author of a number of picture books, including My Fade is Fresh, which garnered multiple starred reviews, Sandy Toes: A Summer Adventure, Snowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure and When I Wrap My Hair. A former poet laureate for the City of Halifax, her picture book Africville won the 2019 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and was a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Awards, the 2019 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards, and the 2019 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award.
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Praise for Bright Lights and Summer Nights

PRAISE AND ACCOLADES FOR Africville BY SHAUNTAY GRANT:

  • Winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, 2019
  • Winner of the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration
  • Short-listed, Governor General's Literary Award, Young People's Literature - Illustrated Books, 2019
  • Short-listed, Elizabeth-Mrazik Cleaver Award, 2018

"The writing is spare but emotional, and the art brings the community to life. A loving tribute to a history that should not be forgotten." —Kirkus Reviews

PRAISE AND ACCOLADES FOR Africville BY SHAUNTAY GRANT:

  • Winner of the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, 2019
  • Winner of the Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration
  • Short-listed, Governor General's Literary Award, Young People's Literature - Illustrated Books, 2019
  • Short-listed, Elizabeth-Mrazik Cleaver Award, 2018

"The writing is spare but emotional, and the art brings the community to life. A loving tribute to a history that should not be forgotten." —Kirkus Reviews