Lights Out, Night's Out (AniMotion)
by William Boniface
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Author: William BonifaceIllustrator: Milena Kirkova
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-09-15
ISBN: 0740784315
Number of pages: 24
Publisher: Accord Publishing, a division of Andrews McMeel
Book Reviews of Lights Out, Night's Out (AniMotion)
Book Review: Moving creatures of the night, are sure to bring young eyes delight
Summary: 4 Stars
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This sturdy, vibrantly illustrated book about creatures that come out in the night is sure to enchant young children. What pops out when you open each page are the delightful animations, that exhibit night animals in action -- flying, leaping, howling or waving their sinuous tail as the page opens or closes. It's a neat effect, that kids will love and that I enjoyed quite a bit. The animation is just a small part of each two page section, and fits into a much larger picture depicting one or two night animals. The pictures are vividly colored and nicely illustrated - it's a unique look that the cover illustrates nicely: rich, dark colors of the night, whimsical or devious eyes, intriguing background shapes lightly suggestive of a habitat. The short, poetic, rhymes describing each section are nice too, they read well and suggest something interesting about the behaviors of each animal.
Of the spider, for example, "The spider spins her silk web, as evening breezes flow and ebb. She flits along the silken track, just waiting for a midnight snack."
The last page includes an intriguing factoid about each of the featured animals, such as the fact that a spider's silk is strong as nylon but stretches much longer, or the impressive fact that you can estimate the temperature by counting the chirps of crickets for 15 seconds and then adding 40 to give the temperature in Fahrenheit.
The animals covered tend to be found in North America, but a few, like the Hippopotamus or the Jaguar, are found elsewhere. The book doesn't give any hint of where each animal is likely to be found, apart from the fact that mountains figure in the background of the wolves, water in the background of the frogs. Mushrooms are found in several of the animal backgrounds.
Kids love books with something unique about them; we had lots of board books and popup books while our children were growing up. My youngest (8 years old) is probably a bit too old for this one. I had him read it to me, and he was intrigued but it wasn't something I think he'll clamor for nightly. When he was younger we read some of his favorite books over and over again, and I think this is one we would have read lots of times. A very nice book, with a special animated touch that doesn't feel like a gimmick. A minor complaint is that because the animotion elements are a bit dark - these animals are nocturnal, after all - you have to read it in a very bright room in order to see them. We tend to read books with only a night lamp, since I find this helps my children acclimate to bed time, but for him to see the animations I found I had to turn on the main light as well. Still, that's a minor point, and it makes sense that the pictures would be dark, and they remain quite colorful and vivid in spite of this. Overall, this is a handsome book, sure to delight young children, likely between 3 and 5.
Summary of Lights Out, Night's Out (AniMotion)
From Accord's New York Times best-selling AniMotion series, Lights Out, Night's Out takes readers on a nighttime safari to see the world through the eyes of clever nocturnal critters ranging from hedgehogs and hippos to frogs and fireflies.High definition fluorescent inks, exclusive to this collection, appear in both page illustrations and animation windows to heighten visual contrasts between late-night imagery and the colorful creatures that play across the book's twilight canvas. Such vividly depicted illustrations paired with Accord's full-color AniMotion windows, literally bring the story to life, while author William Boniface hints at slumber through his lyrical verse.
Like other AniMotion titles, Lights Out, Night's Out encourages environmental awareness at the earliest of ages by including a back-of-book resource section full of interesting facts about the nocturnal animals.
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