Baby Animals Day & Night

Sweet and simple, introducing the love of books to even the very youngest babies is fun and easy with this adorable board book.

Read more Review 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 WeeklyAs 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.