Abstract
At night, the world appears in a different light and can become an aesthetic experience. Its representation in fictional literature invites children to imagine possible worlds. It can support them in their literary socialisation to acquire language and literature, self and world in narrative mode, to have aesthetic experiences with the night in shared imagination with others in a narrative resonance space. In this paper, key incidents from a reading aloud discussion in an Italian-speaking primary school about a rhyming picturebook are presented and considered from a resonance theory perspective, in which children allow themselves to be touched by the night with its diverse natural phenomena in the interplay of their own and imagined experiences.