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Having explored the alphabet ("The Hidden Alphabet"), colors ("Lemons Are Not Red"), and emotions ("Walter Was Worried"), Laura Vaccaro Seeger turns her extraordinary talents to opposites in this bright, colorful and imaginative book. Through a series of ingenious die-cut pages, the reader discovers things that are the opposite of what they seem: A black bat transformed into a white ghost, a sunny day that becomes a starry night. Posed as a series of 18 questions and answers, "Black? White Day? Night " is sure to be a big success with small children everywhere.
Reviews (2)
Horn Book Review
Seeger's classy lift-the-flap book of opposites employs a text that is simplicity itself ("tiny? huge! over? under!") to introduce concepts of contrast and context, appealingly revealed through interactive investigation. Bold colors and decisive lines, clever optical illusions (the lettering for the word simple forms part of a complicated maze), and mischievous humor combine for a thoughtful, well-packaged offering. This is a paper-over-board edition. (c) Copyright 2016. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Using the same format as her stunning Hidden Alphabet (2003), Seeger presents readers with another eye-catching concept book. Pictured in a die-cut square is a black bat against a white background: "black?" Lift the full-page flap to see a goofily grinning ghost, the bat transmogrified into its mouth: "white!" Some 17 oppositional pairs follow, some simple--"day? night!"--some significantly more complicated--"addition? subtraction!" and, well, "simple? complicated!" (This latter features the word "simple" in blocky letters that become twists and dead-ends in a massively complex maze.) The very best pairings feature pictures that become graphical elements in its opposite; thus, a flea ("tiny?") becomes an elephant's eye ("huge!"), and a frowny face ("sad?") becomes a smiling, freckled, snub-nosed face ("happy!"). With its mix of basic and more sophisticated contradictions, this volume will appeal to a relatively broad spectrum of ages, gently leading the youngest readers from the obvious to the more complex and rewarding older readers with its graphical cleverness. From beginning to end, another winner from Seeger. (Picture book. 3-7) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
