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Holly Young Huth Twilight
Atheneum 0689819757 / 9780689819759 Hardcover Good
0689819757 0689819757 Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out
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Holly Young Huth Twilight
Atheneum 2000 0689819757 / 9780689819759 Hardcover Very Good
0689819757 0689819757 Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Using Manhattan's dramatic skyline as a backdrop, McPhail (Mole Music) dips his brush in nightfall's soft shades for Huth's (The Son of the Sun and the Daughter of the Moon) fantasy tale of a self-proclaimed "keeper of twilight." As dusk approaches, a girl and her mother stroll the city streets, and the girl announces to everyone she meets, "It's twilight!" When the big moment finally arrives, heralded by a sky that is "not a color you could say, but it was soft," she takes flight. In the dreamy sequence that follows, she helps the day stars prepare to shine, reads the sun a bedtime story and persuades the moon to rise, arriving back on the sidewalk by her mother just as nighttime descends. ("She wasn't in charge of that," the story concludes wryly.) Huth's poetic language soars alongside her heroine; with a nod to Dylan Thomas she describes the sun "tucking itself in under the woolly hills" and city lights that "sparkle all at once like a thousand dressed-up stars." McPhail takes full advantage of New York's unmistakable landmarks and the widened perspective of the airborne journey, as the heroine swoops up past the tip of the Chrysler Building and hovers above the Statue of Liberty. Swoony colors pave the way to slumberAfrom the plum-colored endpapers to the faded blues, greens and pinky lavenders that seem to emanate from the sun's fading rays. Ages 3-8. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal PreSchool-Grade 1-The book cover sets the stage for this flight of fancy. It depicts a young girl soaring purposefully toward New York City's brilliantly lit Chrysler Building, against a softly glowing sky. She's "the keeper of the twilight," and she has left her mother's side to attend to all of her duties: polishing the stars, reading the sun a bedtime story, and "persuading" the moon to rise. While the language is not particularly notable, preschoolers (who have so little control over their own universe) will enjoy the heroine's commanding tone as she admonishes the owl to keep his eyes closed a little longer and informs the coyotes it is not yet time to howl. This latter scene is a bit jarring since all of the other compositions integrate her body (and thus the fantasy) into a New York City setting. Here, she and the coyotes are superimposed on the top of the page in a yellow desert, floating above a city skyline at sunset. The child ultimately relinquishes her role as she takes her mother's hand once again, because "It's nighttime now," and "She wasn't in charge of that." McPhail's watercolors effectively create this magical time of day, with its deepening shadows, isolated patches of sunlight, and a skyline that's an ever-changing canvas. The short text and shifting perspectives lend themselves to both bedtime and storytime sharing. The title begs pairing with Barbara Berger's Grandfather Twilight (Philomel, 1984). Mary Joslin's Twilight Verses, Moonlight Rhymes (Augsburg, 1999) would provide additional pleasure. Wendy Lukehart, Dauphin County Library, Harrisburg, PA Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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