Reviews for Hildilid's Night

The average rating for Hildilid's Night based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-04-22 00:00:00 Sylvia Ytreberg Lovely Pencil drawings! A beautiful picture book of pencil drawings for beginning readers and above. Hildilid does not like the night. She is trying to get rid of the night all night long in various and silly ways. The sun comes up and she is so tired she misses it and goes to bed. The children thought this story was funny. They were saying things like, you can’t get rid of the night with a broom or a fire. They thought Hildilid was pretty stupid to put it mildly. It made me think of Chinese philosophy. ‘That which we oppose has power.’ The night certainly took up all of hildilid’s time and energy, so much so she missed the whole day, the part she loved. Sometimes, health is focusing on the thing we love and not what we want to change. There is actually quite a bit of wisdom to draw from this little story.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-05-22 00:00:00 Brad Kesten My first thought after reading this little volume was - what an odd little story. Then it came to me - this poor little woman spent all her energy and creativity towards getting rid of what she hated the most, the dark night; when the sun was finally out, she had no strength left to enjoy what she loved, the bright day.