Grandma Cut the Night into Shapes

Name: Grandma Cut the Night into Shapes
Author: Liubai Books

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At bedtime the lamp burns low, and grandma takes up her scissors. Snip by snip, the dark around the boy gives way: lamplight gathers where she cuts, and shadows settle into shapes he has never seen before.

A quiet story about a grandma, a boy, and a night that can be trimmed and rearranged — told in pictures that glow at the edges, the way a room glows around one small lamp.

Book cover of Grandma Cut the Night into Shapes (Liubai Books)

Illustration from Grandma Cut the Night into Shapes: lamplight gathering as grandma trims the dark

Illustration from Grandma Cut the Night into Shapes: shadows settling into new shapes around the boy — Later: the shapes settle, and the room keeps them.