While the World is Sleeping

This iconographic-animated adaptation of the 2010 picture book by author Pamela Duncan Edwards and illustrator Daniel Kirk features dramatic rhyming segments highlighting creatures of the night. From Father Stag and Mother Doe, to silvery fish, foxes, a porcupine rattling quills, snakes, and even a raccoon digging through garbage cans, While the World is Sleeping follows a little girl on a dreamlike journey astride the back of a snowy owl, combining sound effects with dark and sparkling nighttime images. DVD extras include conversations with Kirk and Edwards (who talks about how she's been writing “since I was a very small person”). Recommended. Aud: K, E, P. (J. Williams-Wood)