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Title: Twilight by Holly Young Huth, David McPhail ISBN: 0-689-81975-7 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dreamy & delightful!!
Comment: On a beautiful night in the city, a young girl runs up the street with her mother. "It's twilight!" she exclaims to the man in the bakery, to the couples in love holding hands. She is the keeper of twilight, and it's her job to transition the day into the night.
"'I'm in charge of the twilight here and there and everywhere' the little girl keeper announced." Then, in a marvelous, dream-like sequence, she floats high above the city to polish the stars, read the sun a bedtime story and caution the creatures of the night that it's not QUITE time to wake up and begin their day, they need to wait for full night. She flies through the darkening skies, between the tall buildings with pelicans coming home to the bay to eat. She persuades the moon to rise, peeking up over the horizon and casting long shadows across the Statue of Liberty in the harbor.
"Twilight" is a beautiful, dreamy book, masterfully constructed in both text and illustration. The story is soft and almost mysterious--the little girl is never named, so she could be any child with an active imagination and a love of twilight. The illustrations are full page and very detailed in watercolors and pen & ink. The colors are muted evening shades of purple and oranges, perfectly showing the encroaching night as day fades away on the city. Though the city is crowded (what city isn't?) there is a coziness and sleepiness to the story as everything slowly winds down for the night in the city.
The story is easy to read and certainly sparks the imagination of the reader. The story is easy enough that a beginning reader can tackle it, and it's engaging and timeless that far more advanced readers (like, say, some ADULTS!) will love to revisit this story over and over again... Especially right before bedtime!!
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Title: Ignis by Gina Wilson, P. J. Lynch ISBN: 0763616230 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Moon Lake by Ivan Gantschev, Marianne Martens ISBN: 1558585982 Publisher: North South Books Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Book of Beasts by Inga Moore, Edith Nesbit ISBN: 076361579X Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson, Paul Howard ISBN: 0763615625 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: My Friend Gorilla by Atsuko Morozumi ISBN: 0374354588 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 10 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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