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Review: Black? White! Day? Night!

posted Friday, 4 May 2007

Stars:  1/2
Title: Black? White! Day? Night
Author: Laura Vaccaro Seeger

I just have to mention this one because I used it for an Opposites storytime a few weeks ago and one little boy exclaimed, "This book is MAGIC!!" What better recommendation can you get? Smile

Seeger is the author of another of my faves, Lemons are not Red. She uses die-cut flaps to reveal opposites in clever ways.  The tiny bug we see in the cutout turns out to be the eye of a huge elephant when we lift the flap. Blue diamonds that are all alike turn out to be part of snowflakes that are very different. The concepts are simple (with a few trickier ones like ordinary/extraordinary thrown in) and I love the bold colours. Kids have great fun anticipating the answers and it's a fun way to teach opposites. The only thing keeping it from 5 stars is that it's a tad too long for comfortable reading aloud - leaving out a couple of the concepts would've made it just perfect for me.

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