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SHAUNTAY GRANT is an award-winning author, poet, playwright, interdisciplinary artist and associate professor of creative writing at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Her picture books include My Fade Is Fresh and Africville. In writing Bright Lights and Summer Nights, Shauntay was inspired by Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon. ZACH MANBECK is an artist and children's book author and illustrator based in Pennsylvania. He made his picture book debut with You Are Here. Zach was inspired by the film The Wizard of Oz and the paintings of Maxfield Parrish and Vincent van Gogh for his art in Bright Lights and Summer Nights.
""[W]ends from pleasantly pedestrian to fantastical and transcendent; this is the kind of restorative dream one hopes to have."" —STARRED REVIEW, Kirkus Reviews ""Crisp, rhythmic phrasing from Grant and luminous, emerald-hued artwork by Manbeck chart a child’s enchanted summertime dreams in this vividly rendered picture book. . . . As the story zooms back out, a portrait of the child curled up on a cloud warmly invites readers to drift off themselves."" —STARRED REVIEW, Publishers Weekly ""[A] lovely addition to the tradition of bedtime books that imagine a world of excitement and impossible wonders once the sun goes down."" —Booklist
