Wednesday, March 27, 2019

New York Day and Night



Sometimes your eyes can play tricks on you, especially in the dark. This enchanting picture book shows how New York City can look quite peculiar at night. Each brightly colored spread is overlaid with a sheet of translucent blue paper and when lifted, voilĂ ! A space ship and Martian become The Guggenheim, a giant serpent is actually the subway, King Kong's jungle turns into Central Park, and a superhero takes on the shape of a construction worker. Exhilarating and captivating, all the scenes are easily switched between day and night and will take the reader on a unique journey that lets imaginations run wild while revealing that some things at night aren't as scary as they seem.

Our grandchildren don't know much about New York yet, but that didn't stop them from enjoying this unique book. The first time through, I handled the overlays that change each scene from day to night and back to day again. But after that, they wanted to flip the pages all by themselves. It was entertaining to them as they saw the dramatic changes to each picture in the book.

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