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Light and Dark

Winter reads from OPL: Picturebooks and nonfiction for K-5 that discuss darkness, light, the opposition of the two, seasonal celebrations, and the parts in-between: shadows, eclipses, night lights, Northern lights.

Oakland Public Library

25 items

  • The Return of the Light

    Twelve Tales From Around the World for the Winter Solstice

    Edwards, Carolyn McVickar
    BookNew York : Marlowe & Co. ; [Berkeley, CA] : Distributed by Publishers Group west, [2000] — 398.33 EDWARDS
  • Celebrations of Light

    a Year of Holidays Around the World

    Luenn, Nancy
    BookNew York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1998. — J 394.26 LUENN
  • BookToronto ; Tonawanda, NY : Kids Can Press, c2012. — J 394.26 RONDINA
  • How does the world around us look when the sun rises at 2 AM? What about when it's dark almost all day? Nonfiction for older grades or even middle school.
    BookNew York : Walker & Co., c2003. — J 591.40911 MILLER
  • Northern lights illuminate this folktale from the Far North.
    Picture BookIqaluit, Nunavut ; Toronto, Ontario : Inhabit Media, c2019. — J PICBK DEAL
  • Take a twilight walk around your neighborhood and look for the light and dark.
    Picture BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017. — J PICBK DENOS
  • Darkness here represents emotion -- sophisticated and open to interpretation by all ages.
    Picture BookLondon : Lantana Publishing, c2019. — J PICBK CHRISTOPH
  • Opposites! Things can look very different in the day and the night.
    Picture BookNew York : Orchard Books, c2013. — J PICBK BLECHMAN
  • Good book for little ones coping with a fear of the dark.
    Picture BookSan Francisco, CA : Chronicle Books LLC, [2020] — J PICBK STUTZMAN
  • Who is that big black rabbit following little white rabbit?!
    Picture BookSomerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2013. — J PICBK LEATHERS
  • picture book nonfiction (possibly shelved with toddler concepts) to review real-life experiences of light and shadow
    Picture BookNew York : Greenwillow Books, c1990. — J PICBK HOBAN
  • What you see (or think you see) is not always what you get.
    Picture BookWilton, CT : Tiger Tales, 2015. — J PICBK HEGARTY
  • explores silhouettes, shading, etc.
    BookMilwaukee : Gareth Stevens Pub., 2000. — J 750.18 RICHARDSO
  • Look!

    Seeing the Light in Art

    Wolfe, Gillian
    perspective -- technical and artistic!
    BookLondon : Frances Lincoln Children's, 2006. — J 750.18 WOLFE
  • Night, a tiny child, prepares for bed.
    Picture BookNew Milford, Conn. : Roaring Brook Press, 2007. — J PICBK MORALES
  • Even at night, many lights still shine.
    Picture BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008. — J PICBK SWANSON
  • Nervous in the dark? There are lots of little lights.
    Picture BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. — J PICBK GAL
  • What can you see in the night? Nocturnal animals!
    Picture BookSan Francisco, California : Chronicle Books, [2014] — J PICBK BOYD
  • What to do when the electricity goes out?
    Picture BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015. — J PICBK ALBOROZO