• The Night Before Earth Day (Night Before)

The Night Before Earth Day
(Night Before)

Author
Natasha Wing
Illustrator
Amy Wummer
Publication Date
March 11, 2025
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Novel in Verse
The Night Before Earth Day (Night Before)
Description

A community gets ready to celebrate Earth Day!

A neighborhood begins to work together to make the world a better place! They create a community garden, plant trees, and prepare to release butterflies on Earth Day. Join them as they go green in this installment of the Night Before series, told in the style of Clement C. Moore's classic tale.

Publication date
March 11, 2025
Genre
Fiction
Page Count
32
ISBN-13
9780593519790
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Series
Night Before
BISAC categories
JUV057000 - Juvenile Fiction | Stories in Verse (see also Poetry)
JUV029010 - Juvenile Fiction | Nature & the Natural World | Environment
JUV063000 - Juvenile Fiction | Recycling & Green Living

School Library Journal

The latest installment in Wing's "The Night Before" series focuses on Earth Day, following a community as it finds myriad ways to celebrate and serve the planet. Recycling, planting trees, composting, and cleaning up trash-the more they do, the more they have to enjoy. The list includes observing birds and bugs, and swapping books and clothes instead of buying new ones. By doing these things that take care of the earth, it brings them together. The rhyming couplets are standard fare, but do the job to make this subject easily digestible for the intended age group. Illustrations portray a decent diversity of ages and skin tones. VERDICT This fits the bill for an earth-themed chapter in this series. Purchase where circulation warrants and paperback formats are appropriate.

Copyright 2025 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Natasha Wing
Natasha Wing (www.natashawing.com) lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. Her first book in the Night Before series, The Night Before Easter, was published in 1999.

Nathalie is a freelance illustrator living in Argentina.
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