Chronicle Books, 2010
$14.99, all ages, 40 pages
When points of view are starkly different, you say they're as different as night and day. But if you are, in fact, Night and Day, do you have to be worlds apart?
In this delightful book adaptation of Pixar's 2010 short by the same name, two doughy shaped fellows named Night and Day discover that being different is nothing to be afraid of.
Against a backdrop of blackness, Day wakes up with a skip in his step. Birds swirl around inside him, flowers bloom in his belly and for a time he lays back soaking in the rising sun.
But as Day gets up to walk again he comes upon Night curled up on the ground sleeping and is startled because he's never seen anything like him.
Uneasy about what Night is, Day tries to slip past him unnoticed. But at that moment Night wakes up, equally out of sorts.
"Yikes!" they yell at the same time as each stumbles back from the other.
