Flash and Gleam: Light in Our World by Khoa Le, Sue Fliess
on March 3, 2020
ISBN: 1541557700
Genres: Non-Fiction
Format: Picture Book Nonfiction
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This book is deceptively rich. The rhyming text is so sparse, albeit well done, that it would be easy to blow through it as a read aloud for bedtime or a classroom. It deserves some lingering, though, as each page not only shows the way light is used but also the way it unites us. Families marvel at natural light phenomena and celebrate the Fourth of July, Yi Peng, Diwali, Hanukkah and Christmas with luminous and textural illustrations. While the book seems to focus on the relationship between humans and light, there is a page and a half about the science behind it in the back making this a good classroom book.

Reviewed by Sarah Maciejewski, Patten Free Library, Bath