![]() “ Come, it whispers to us.” While sometimes the boy plays (shooting hoops while his father cleans the gym or reading aloud to him while he cleans the library), he also gives him a hand, “sweeping the school from stem to stern.” Hesse captures one night of the father’s custodial work afterwards, they head home and, just as the sun is rising, drift away together in a recliner. “He opens the door, and the building sighs,” Hesse writes. This is the story of a boy and his father, who leave their apartment complex and take a motorcycle on a Friday night to the school that the father cleans for a living. Brian Karas, will be on shelves in September - and it is a book to look forward to. ![]() (See how I waited at least a little bit?) Karen Hesse’s Night Job (Candlewick), illustrated by G. ![]() ![]() I’m doing that thing again (forgive me) where I’m writing about a book several months before it arrives on bookshelves, but I’ve had this art for a while and decided to go ahead and share it today. ![]()
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