What Makes Day and Night? by Franklyn Mansfield Branley

What Makes Day and Night? Reviews

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  Michael Fitzgerald

  Dull dot-eye illustrations.
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  Alex

  I enjoyed this book because I liked the part when it taught me about day & night😆. The earth turning makes day and night😶.
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  Hilary

  A nice explanation about day and night with some good 60s print illustrations. Sadly the copy used to put this on open library has some graffiti, one page has a swastika drawn on it.
  
  Read on Open Library.
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  Emily Mote

  Summary:
  This book provides knowledge for readers about the Earth's orbit and how it causes day and night. After explaining this concept, the book offers a hands-on activity for children to try to better understand the cause of day and night.
  
  Evaluation:
  I think this book does an incredible job of explaining the orbit of the Earth in kid-friendly language. The explanations are short, but thorough for young readers to understand. I also love that the book offers a fun activity to help display the orbit of the Earth and the suns light on Earth.
  
  Teaching Ideas:
  I would use this book in science class to teach my students about the Earth's orbit. I would read this book as an interactive read aloud to introduce the topic. I would then allow the students to try the orbit activity described in the book, which involved shining a flashlight and spinning slowly, to show how light from the sun hits different parts of the Earth throughout the orbit.
  
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  Alana

  
  Awards: None
  Grade level: PreK-2
  Summary: Through a simple explanations, learn how the earth rotates and creates day and night. There are also activities/demonstration for students to better understand this concept.
  My Review: I really like this book because it more storybook-like than other nonfiction books that I have seen. I really like how there is an activity/demonstration within the book because not everyone can understand this concert through text. Although it is a little repetitive, I think it’s a good book for little learners since they need the repetition.
  In Class: One activity to do in class is to have a Venn diagram where students can sort day and night things (sun, stars, moon, clouds, etc). Another activity students can do is keep a sunset log. Once a week, they can record when the sun goes down and that can lead into a lesson about the seasons.
  
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  Diana

  Nice, basic introduction into the concept of the Earth's rotation and how it causes day and night. The illustrations are a little dated, but the data is timeless. My only issue, really, is that the text is a little too difficult for the early readers that would benefit from a simple introduction like this. Older kids are likely to be underwhelmed by the information and format, but younger kids would need help with the reading, and the text is too clunky to really enjoy reading aloud.
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  Brittany

  Simply worded science book on how day and night work. A simple and doable experience (all you need is a flashlight) introduced, and illustrations that both are real and help understanding for young children to grasp how day and night are “made”.
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  Sandy

  It accomplishes its purpose of explaining how we have day and night. I just think there are probably better books out there on the subject. I found myself skipping some of the text as I was reading it to my kids as the information was too repetitive - even for a 3 and 5 year old.
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  Peacegal

  Simple science concepts about the Earth's rotation and light are presented alongside appealing woodcut-style illustrations of the sort that we are once again seeing with some of today's art (though normally not in kids' books).
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  Elizabeth

  ATOS 2.8
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  Nikki in Niagara

  Reason for Reading: Ds read aloud to me as his non-fiction reader.
  
  This book is still in print but has been completely revised and is not the same as the old edition we have here. A simple, easy-to-read introduction to the earth's shape and how it revolves to create night and day, sunsets and sunrises. An experiment with a lamp is used to further illustrate the process. This book was fairly easy for ds to read and gave him a chance to practice reading using a conversational voice. He also knew the information and it caused him to initiate dialogue to expand upon the basic observations and impart his own knowledge. I love this series of books; they are excellent easy readers in the science field and Branley is a good, interesting writer of non-fiction material. Branley was the originator of the series.
  
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  Cara

  These series of books (Let's Read and Find Out Science) are awesome! Carsten loves them all and has learned so much from them (as have I)! This one was especially good, as are "Volcanoes", "How A Seed Grows", "From Caterpillar to Butterfly", "What is the World Made Of", & "The Planets in Our Solar System". These are always a big hit with my little curious scientist. They are no literary accomplishment, but they explain concepts very clearly, on a level appropriate for 4 and up, and interestingly enough to keep the attention of a young child.
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  Firstgradejags

  We read this book to learn why we have night and day. We learned that when it is daylight on one side of the earth, it is night time on the other side of the earth because the sun only shines on part of the earth at a time. But the most interesting thing we learned was about the moon. We learned that one moon day = 14 of our days and one moon night = 14 of our nights
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  Takishia Gabriel

  This was an excellent book that explained what makes day and night. I would read this book to my Kindergarteners and First Graders. This book really does give a good explanation as to what makes the day and night. I would have my students make a text to self connection by asking them what do they notice that happens in the day versus the night.
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  Charlie

  PRETTY GOOD BOOK. But there somethings in the book we are sure to know. SO WHY PUT IT IN? JUST IN CASE THEY DON'T KNOW. Good experiment maybe I'll try. BUT I WON'T! WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN. Maybe the illustrations just show that it works when it really doesn't. YOU KNOW WHAT, MAYBE I WILL TRY IT.
  
  FRANKLIN MANSFIELD BRANLEY
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  Tricia

  For children asking the basic questions about why it's dark at night and light in the daytime, this title provides basic answers in clear simple text. Mostly ilustrated but one clear photograph of the earth from space that is sure to delight the curious.
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  Sheniqua

  This book contains a great deal of factual info about what makes it day and what makes it night. It includes information about the earth and how it turns. I would use this book for Kindergarten to discuss what day and night is.
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  Evelyn Matias

  This book gives a simple explanation of why the world has night and day. That the earth is constantly moving and how long it takes to rotate one time completly. I would use this in my class to help with the understanding of the earth and why we have night and days.
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  Brandi Larsen

  I love this book, and I had high hopes that it would be a favorite with our child. We haven't seen that pan out yet, even though it has gorgeous illustrations and fun exercises.
  
  I work at Penguin Random House, though that did not influence this review.
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  Danielle Wynn

  this book talks about the sun and moon relationship which describes day and night!
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  Carol Royce Owen

  Simply explains why we have night and day to children age 4 to 8. Includes one simple experiment for children to try.
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  Brianna Crall

  Used to explain science lesson, helps students comprehend the Earth's day and night.