Black? White! Day? Night!

Citation: Black?  White!  Day?  Night!   by Laura Vaccaro Seeger.  (Roaring Book Press, 2006). 18p. Concept Picture Book.

Summary: A flip open book of opposites that is filled with pictures that start as one thing and evolve into the opposite.

Critique:

a.         The colorful illustrations and descriptions turn into the opposite with the lifting of a flap. 

b.      While it is the vibrant colors that draw the reader in, it is the imaginative way that one thing transforms into its opposite while incorporating the original picture.  Every page in the book contains an opposite pair, some traditional and others less conventional. 

c.       It looks like a picture of a black bat, but when you lift the flap, the bat becomes part of a white ghost (p.1).  Brown and pink together help create a mountain? Or is pink and brown really a valley (p.9)?    

Curriculum Connection:  Opposites can be connected to science and math or language arts.  Black?  White!  Day?  Night!  has so many curriculum connections and so little time that it is a must have for a classroom library.