Melody Mooner Stayed Up All Night

Lisa Arsenault is a public-school teacher in Ajax, Ontario.

Melody Mooner is a piglet who is determined to stay up all night. Her
family keeps telling her what time it is, but every time they say the
o’clock Melody counters with a new activity that she is engaged in and
is going to continue doing all night long. Eventually she goes outside
to count the stars. She lives in an isolated house in the country and so
she is treated to a variety of night sounds. They are the normal noises
that frogs and cows make, but they sound eerie in the dark. And when
Melody hears the long-drawn howl of a coyote and is confronted with a
bat, she is driven by fright indoors, where she goes to sleep in her
parents’ bed.

This is a pleasant little book. Its illustrations feature a rather
endearing little guinea pig, Melody’s pet, who participates with her
in all of her activities and jumps into Melody’s parents’ bed with
her—hanging on to one of her pigtails.