DATE: Tuesday, November 4, 1997             TAG: 9711040061

SECTION: DAILY BREAK             PAGE: E4   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: BY KRYS STEFANSKY, STAFF WRITER 

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INNOVATIVE BOOK CAPTURES IMAGES OF DAY, NIGHTTIME

We've found a memorable book that has no ending. Nancy Tafuri, after earning Caldecott Honors for ``Have You Seen My Duckling?'' is back with a concept that turns right side up into upside down and endings into beginnings.

``What the Sun Sees/What the Moon Sees'' (Greenwillow Books, $16, ages 2 and up) is a beautiful picture book by this author/artist simple enough for the youngest listener yet so clever that it captures the imagination of beginning readers.

Turn the book one way, and you have a story about what happens during daylight. Birds tend their young, barnyards bustle, cities wake and children play. Flip the book over, and nighttime brings quiet farmyards, watchful owls and slumbering cities.

The text is simple, the type size big. Tafuri's pencil and watercolor illustrations are alive with color and action in the daylight half of the book. Meanwhile, the night half of the story is done in soothing blues and greens with a lovely view of the moon shining on the Earth's surface at the end . . . or is it the beginning? ILLUSTRATION: GREENWILLOW BOOKS

Birds and flowers are among the things the sun sees.

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