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Smoky Night is a 1994 children's book by Eve Bunting.It tells the story of a Los Angeles riot and its aftermath through the eyes of a young boy named Daniel. The ongoing fires and looting force neighbors who previously disliked each other to work together to find their cats.
Kirkus Reviews called Bunting's work "child's brief sentences, but sprinkled with rhyming words and typographically arranged like a poem in short lines that slow the reading to a somber pace", while also applauding Bittinger's oil paintings. [1]
Bunting then enrolled in a community college writing course. [4] Of her first published story, The Two Giants, she said, "I thought everybody in the world knew that story, and when I found they didn't - well, I thought they should." [5] Bunting died of pneumonia in Santa Cruz, California, on October 1, 2023, at the age of 94. [6]
Susan Riley, of School Library Journal, reviewed the book saying, "Bunting, long a favorite of teen thrill seekers, has produced another winner in this well-written story of acute loneliness, alienation, romance, the occult, hope, and tragedy.
Now, as she thinks back on using while she was incarcerated, she recalls, "It was like, okay, you have to scrounge. You have to find it, really kind of get into the groove of who has what in prison."
In May 2023 at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, there was an exhibition dedicated to Brett's Illustrations. The exhibition director, Chris Rossi, commented on how the details in Brett's paintings are eye-catching and intricate. The amount of studying she puts into her books also adds to making her art feel more lively and detailed.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
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