NIGHT/DAY

A picture dictionary of antonyms, one word to a spread, where each word cleverly converts to its opposite or near-opposite with a turn of the page. Tullet’s bold, brightly colored drawings work well to portray different characteristics of these opposites. Almost every page offers a die-cut hole that provides a hint of the word on the following page. A red dot on a boy’s shirt, labeled nice, turns into a bright red, stuck-out tongue on the following page, labeled naughty. Many of the word pairs are familiar ones: near and far, up and down, etc. Others stretch the concept a bit—is the opposite of foot really a hand, or is pills the opposite of candy? The illustrations graphically convey the concept they represent, with clean appearing on a blank page, and dirty showing up on a smudge of ink and paint. (Picture book. 4-8)