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Baby Animals Day & Night

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$6.95 US
6"W x 6"H x 0.25"D   | 4 oz | 102 per carton
On sale May 10, 2016 | 10 Pages | 9781580896092
Age 0-3 years | Up to Preschool
Sleepy babies and wide-awake babies, day and night.
 
This companion to Pyllis Limbacher Tildes’s Baby Animals Black and White and Baby Animals Spots and Stripes, Baby Animals Day and Night introduces diurnal and nocturnal animals in lovingly detailed black and white images, perfect for developing eyes. Meet otter, bobcat, and a host of other baby critters wild and domestic as they go about their daily and nightly routines!
 
Sweet and simple, introducing the love of books to even the very youngest babies is fun and easy with this adorable board book.
Tildes follows Baby Animals Spots & Stripes with another high-contrast board book, this time showing four woodland creatures awake and asleep. Wispy, naturalistic images with the look of scratchboard art show a chipmunk eating an acorn as the book opens; opposite, it curls up in a thatch of grass. Baby bobcats, otters, and skunks follow, and black backgrounds for the bobcat and skunk's "awake" scenes hint at their nocturnal habits. A full-color closing spread of a human child almost seems like it belongs to another book, visually speaking, but should help youngest readers draw connections between their own habits and those of the pictured animals.
- Publishers Weekly

As she did in Baby Animals Spots & Stripes (2014) and Baby Animals Black & White (1998), Tildes uses detailed black-and-white illustrations to catch infants' eyes, here highlighting four unusual animals.At the same time she subtly and wordlessly imparts some pretty sophisticated scientific concepts. Tildes' illustrations alternate between the diurnal chipmunk and otter and the nocturnal bobcat and skunk. Each animal is shown twice, awake and asleep on opposite pages, with only the black or white background hinting at the time of day when that animal is active. Although each animal is named, the more complex concepts are left for adult reading partners, or perhaps older siblings, to point out or ignore depending on the interest, age, and attention of their babies. This is an age-appropriate choice, but it relies on adults to supply the scientific vocabulary. A toy chipmunk and otter-, bobcat- and skunk-decorated clothing reprise the same animals in the final, full-color pair of images of a charming human baby. The purple-clad child is appropriately androgynous and also ethnically ambiguous, though this curly-haired darling is very pale.A simple book with interesting possibilities for repeated reading, especially likely to hold the attention of both babies and their preschool-age siblings.
- Kirkus Reviews
Phyllis exhibited artistic talent at the age of two and a half when she presented her mother with a drawing of a butterfly, followed by a man selling peanuts at a peanut stand. She was anxious to follow her older brother and sister to school in Stratford, Connecticut, where she was soon writing poems and stories to illustrate and give to family and friends.

As a child she was always curious about nature and enjoyed exploring in the woods behind her home. The Limbacher house was always filled with pets and an occasional wild, orphaned animal.
Phyllis was a voracious reader and loved her town library where she selected stacks of books for summer reading. She would often climb onto a branch of an old chestnut tree outside the library to read a book and study the detailed art of one her favorite illustrators such as Arthur Rackham and Beatrix Potter.

After graduating with honors from high school, Phyllis attended Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where she received a B.F.A. as an illustration major. She spent her senior year in Rome as a European Honor Student. For her senior thesis she wrote and illustrated an eastern European folktale for children titled Sasha.

Phyllis has worked as a designer for Hallmark and was the assistant art director for Hopkins Art Center at Dartmouth College after her graduation from RISD. She was a freelance graphic designer for over twenty-five years, doing everything from logos to opera and ballet promotion pieces.
She never lost sight of her original dream of becoming an author/illustrator, however, and in 1995 her first children's book, Counting on Calico, was published. Since then she has published several other stories ranging from pets and wildlife to ethnic tales.

The North Royalton Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library (suburban Cleveland, Ohio) proudly incorporated illustrations from Ms. Tildes' books Animals in Camouflage and Eye Guess in the Children's area of their new facility. A large mural and custom interactive play panels serve to delight and educate young people in this backyard wildlife themed space.

For many years, Phyllis lived with her family in Connecticut. They have also lived in Nottingham, England, and enjoy traveling to exotic places like the rain forests of Costa Rica. They live in Savannah, Georgia, where Phyllis enjoys birdwatching, gardening, writing, and expanding her artistic abilities. View titles by Phyllis Limbacher Tildes
Chipmunk

Bobcat

About

Sleepy babies and wide-awake babies, day and night.
 
This companion to Pyllis Limbacher Tildes’s Baby Animals Black and White and Baby Animals Spots and Stripes, Baby Animals Day and Night introduces diurnal and nocturnal animals in lovingly detailed black and white images, perfect for developing eyes. Meet otter, bobcat, and a host of other baby critters wild and domestic as they go about their daily and nightly routines!
 
Sweet and simple, introducing the love of books to even the very youngest babies is fun and easy with this adorable board book.

Praise

Tildes follows Baby Animals Spots & Stripes with another high-contrast board book, this time showing four woodland creatures awake and asleep. Wispy, naturalistic images with the look of scratchboard art show a chipmunk eating an acorn as the book opens; opposite, it curls up in a thatch of grass. Baby bobcats, otters, and skunks follow, and black backgrounds for the bobcat and skunk's "awake" scenes hint at their nocturnal habits. A full-color closing spread of a human child almost seems like it belongs to another book, visually speaking, but should help youngest readers draw connections between their own habits and those of the pictured animals.
- Publishers Weekly

As she did in Baby Animals Spots & Stripes (2014) and Baby Animals Black & White (1998), Tildes uses detailed black-and-white illustrations to catch infants' eyes, here highlighting four unusual animals.At the same time she subtly and wordlessly imparts some pretty sophisticated scientific concepts. Tildes' illustrations alternate between the diurnal chipmunk and otter and the nocturnal bobcat and skunk. Each animal is shown twice, awake and asleep on opposite pages, with only the black or white background hinting at the time of day when that animal is active. Although each animal is named, the more complex concepts are left for adult reading partners, or perhaps older siblings, to point out or ignore depending on the interest, age, and attention of their babies. This is an age-appropriate choice, but it relies on adults to supply the scientific vocabulary. A toy chipmunk and otter-, bobcat- and skunk-decorated clothing reprise the same animals in the final, full-color pair of images of a charming human baby. The purple-clad child is appropriately androgynous and also ethnically ambiguous, though this curly-haired darling is very pale.A simple book with interesting possibilities for repeated reading, especially likely to hold the attention of both babies and their preschool-age siblings.
- Kirkus Reviews

Author

Phyllis exhibited artistic talent at the age of two and a half when she presented her mother with a drawing of a butterfly, followed by a man selling peanuts at a peanut stand. She was anxious to follow her older brother and sister to school in Stratford, Connecticut, where she was soon writing poems and stories to illustrate and give to family and friends.

As a child she was always curious about nature and enjoyed exploring in the woods behind her home. The Limbacher house was always filled with pets and an occasional wild, orphaned animal.
Phyllis was a voracious reader and loved her town library where she selected stacks of books for summer reading. She would often climb onto a branch of an old chestnut tree outside the library to read a book and study the detailed art of one her favorite illustrators such as Arthur Rackham and Beatrix Potter.

After graduating with honors from high school, Phyllis attended Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where she received a B.F.A. as an illustration major. She spent her senior year in Rome as a European Honor Student. For her senior thesis she wrote and illustrated an eastern European folktale for children titled Sasha.

Phyllis has worked as a designer for Hallmark and was the assistant art director for Hopkins Art Center at Dartmouth College after her graduation from RISD. She was a freelance graphic designer for over twenty-five years, doing everything from logos to opera and ballet promotion pieces.
She never lost sight of her original dream of becoming an author/illustrator, however, and in 1995 her first children's book, Counting on Calico, was published. Since then she has published several other stories ranging from pets and wildlife to ethnic tales.

The North Royalton Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library (suburban Cleveland, Ohio) proudly incorporated illustrations from Ms. Tildes' books Animals in Camouflage and Eye Guess in the Children's area of their new facility. A large mural and custom interactive play panels serve to delight and educate young people in this backyard wildlife themed space.

For many years, Phyllis lived with her family in Connecticut. They have also lived in Nottingham, England, and enjoy traveling to exotic places like the rain forests of Costa Rica. They live in Savannah, Georgia, where Phyllis enjoys birdwatching, gardening, writing, and expanding her artistic abilities. View titles by Phyllis Limbacher Tildes

Excerpt

Chipmunk

Bobcat