Let's Look At Animals By Night

A Book Review

Let's Look At Animals By Night &
Let's Look At The Zoo By Night, created by
Claude Delafosse and Gallimard Jeunesse.

Illustrated by Heliadore (Animals) and Sabine Krawczyk (The Zoo).

First Discovery/Torchlight Books, published by Moonlight publishing.
Age range: 2 and above.

Perfect for toddlers (especially those that cannot normally sit still for 5 minutes), I would also recommend them for preschoolers.

Like all wildlife books for children, they describe and show a range of animals.

Each double page is laid out as shown here, with a traditional page on the left. The right hand side is actually two pages - a black background page, overlaid with a black plastic page which has illustrations printed onto it. These are invisible at first.

At the back of each book is a cardboard cut-out of a torch.


Slide the torch between the 2 black pages, and you create the perfect illusion of a flashlight lighting up a night-time scene - at the zoo, or round a streetlight, or in the countryside.

These books are suitable for any toddler over the age of 2.

My toddler and his cousins are absolutely entranced by both of these books.


They are one of the few things that are able to get these boisterous kids to sit quietly and just take something in. Reverence and awe are not too much of an exaggeration in this case!

For one thing, the torch will get lost and so make the book only half readable. As well as this, it's good to teach kids that some things are precious and to be handled with care.

Let's Look At Animals By Night & Let's Look At The Zoo By Night are possibly my favourite toddler reading books.

To buy Animals By Night click here, and to get your copy of
The Zoo By Night follow this link.

There is a whole series of Torchlight books - animals underground, insects, dinosaurs and the jungle.

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