December 2000

TWILIGHT Holly Young Huth and David M. McPhail (Illustrator) New York: Atheneum, 2000 32 pages, hardback, $16 Reading level: Ages 4-8 ISBN: 0-689-81975-7 Reviewed by Lynne Lamberg

"It's twilight!" the little girl shouts to her mother, the man in the store window, and the people she passes on city sidewalks on their way home from work. She's takes charge of the day as it turns into night. As the sky changes to a shade that is "not a color you could say," the girl flies to a place that comes after the sun and before the moon. She polishes the stars to get them ready to shine, reads the sun a bedtime story, hushes coyotes who start to howl in the desert, and scolds an owl for opening an eye. Finally, she finds the moon hiding behind the ocean and persuades it to rise. Her tasks finished, she zips back to her mother's side on the busy street, just in time to see the lights of the city turn on all at once. David McPhail's lush watercolors capture the ethereal quality of the twilight sky and the deepening shadows that wrap a cityscape as night falls.

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