Daylight and Darkness is a wonderful addition to this early-reader science series. I strongly believe that nonfiction texts should include photographs when possible, and these are lovely, simple illustrations of the accompanying texts. This series uses text features and scientific vocabulary to show beginning readers that this story is nonfiction. Some of my favorite features are on the Connecting Concepts page at the end of each book in this series are Science in the Real World and For Further Information, giving teachers and caregivers opportunities to extend the lesson. As always, this book is so well done - I always appreciate the opportunity to review work by #MaryLindeen - thank you to #NetGalley and the publisher as well. I think #DaylightAndDarkness will be the perfect addition to a preschool or early elementary classroom!

Daylight and Darkness is part of the Earth Sciences series for young readers by Mary Lindeen. Full of beautiful pictures, this installment talks about different aspects of day and night Like the others in the series, this one has simple, easy to read sentences, and provides grounding in basic scientific concepts in ways young readers can grasp. The end of the book features a Connecting Concepts section with questions to ask about the reading, and practise with vocabulary and reading fluency. My cubs and I enjoyed reading this book.

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This is an explanatory book, rather than a story book. Nice big colour photos show happy adults and children enjoying the outdoors at different times of day, or different seasons. The idea is to illustrate daylight and darkness, times of day, times of year with shorter or longer daylight hours.

I am not sure if this is suggested for school or home, but early readers would be able to pick up the vocabulary. Short sentences are used. The American term fall is used instead of autumn, which might confuse children a little as the parents are always warning them not to fall at that age. A nice touch is saying that the moon reflects light from the sun.

I am not sure that kids would want to read this again as it doesn't have a character to follow through a story, and the writing is minimal, with only 17 pages. But it could do good service to help a child start reading, get them interested in observing the world.

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Good way to expose the children to the basic concepts of astronomy like the role of the sunlight in the creation of the day/night and seasons.

Daylight and Darkness, by Mary Lindeen is an informative, non-fiction book in the Earth Science Series. The book provides a simple description of length of daylight for children to understand. There are facts given during the reading are accompanied by wonderful photographs. This is also an early reader book that will help to reinforce reading skills and build confidence. At the back of the book it lists the high frequency words as well as content words that can be pre-taught or discussed if the book is being read aloud. The section at the back for parents and teachers gives suggested activities for connecting concept as well as resources for further investigation. A good book for a primary classroom learning about time, day & night and even a simple introduction to the sun and moon. This would be a good book to have in a class or school library.

Daylight and Darkness, by Mary Lindeen is an informative book that provides a fun way for children to learn about various aspects of night and day.

As a part of the Read and Discover Science series, this book encourages children to learn about scientific subjects while working on their reading skills. According to a note from the publisher: "The series can be used with beginning readers to practice high-frequency words, academic language, and to expand comprehension of life, earth, and physical science."



Within thirty-two pages, there are interesting science facts and Did You Know sidebars intermixed with intriguing full-color photographs. Also, there are sections titled as Connecting Concepts and Word List.

Daylight and Darkness is a children's non-fiction picture book that's geared toward kindergartners to third graders.


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Interesting book with great pictures for the early learner. This book can act as springboard to books of the same genre, but more advanced. RECOMMEND!!!

“Daylight and Darkness” was a good nonfiction beginning reader book. We need more of those! However, the first page with the bright red background was difficult to read (maybe it was just my computer?).