Night in the City

Night in the City

First edition

Hardback (30 Mar 2023)

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Publisher's Synopsis

An ingenious account of the jobs people do all through the night, when kids are fast asleep.

In Night in the City, author and illustrator Julie Downing cleverly uses multiple panels to follow eight people throughout the course of their busy evening, from waking up just as most people are contemplating bedtime, through the following morning. 

The jobs depicted are nurse, baker, taxi driver, fire fighter, on location film tech, janitor, museum security guard, and emergency dispatcher. 

Together, their stories bring the beating heart of a city to life, making for a book sure to have kids pouring over meticulously designed pages, following the exploits of our lead characters over the course of a single ordinary evening. 


A Chicago Public Library 'Best of the Best' Book
A Horn Book Fanfare Book
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Book information

ISBN: 9780823452064
Publisher: Holiday House
Imprint: Neal Porter Books
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20220808
Language: English
Weight: 414g
Height: 237mm
Width: 286mm
Spine width: 10mm