The Origin of Day and Night is a retelling of an Inuit folktale about two animals, a hare and a fox, who rely respectively on daylight and moonlight to find their food sources. As a result, there is conflict as neither can agree on whether it should be light or dark. They eventually decide to share and that is how day and night were created. The black and white illustrations are breathtaking and really bring out the atmosphere of the story and the duality of night vs day. This is an excellent bedtime story and great for teaching children about other cultures and folktales.

Note: I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley. I was not compensated in any other fashion for the review and the opinions reflected below are entirely my own. Special thanks to the publisher and author for providing the copy.

This was a book whose cover caught my eye first. The way that it is designed reminds me of a million ways that the Ying Yang sign has been made but this time with a rabbit and fox.

The actual story also ends up reflecting the same polarity with both a predator species and a prey species who both need different times of day to survive. It does mention that the rabbit may become food for the fox but at least within the pages of this telling the fox avoids finishing the fight with a midnight bunny snack.

What I love about this is the fact that it does include Inuit names and Inuit words at least for the main subject but I wish they would give a pronunciation guide. It always made it more fun when I could actually try to pronounce the words the way they are suppose to send like Barloo and Shere Karn.

The telling is given in the right voice for its origins while capturing animal behavior in both the telling and its illustrations. As such it already feels so much more original.

The illustrations are charming and simplistic with a very easy color scheme. Like the cover it allows the reader to focus on the polarity and the actual environment with a few splashes of color thrown in to break-up the sameness.

All in all I would say that it is a very good origins tale for children or adults who want to know about the Inuit beliefs. Fun, simple to read and gorgeous it would make a great addition to any library.

***I received a free copy to read of this book in exchange for an honest review.***

The Origin of Day and Night is an Inuit story about day and night told through a fox and a rabbit. Good story for young ones with good vocabulary words.

The artwork was beautiful and I enjoy the knowledge that this is based on an old Inuit legend, but the story itself wasn't very entertaining and was extremely repetitive.

The Origin of Day and Night is a great retelling of an Inuit tale, telling how a fox and a rabbit brought us day and night. This would be a unique way to incorporate culture and folk tales into a classroom. The story is simple, but conveys the importance of working together alongside the origin of day and night. I would like to see this used alongside other folk tales of day and night.

Thank you Inhabit Media and NetGalley for the lovely book. I love fairy tales and legends. This Arctic story tells the tale of the origin of day and night. When a a hare and fox disagree over a preference for light and dark, day and night are born. With fun illustrations and an interesting story, this would be an excellent picture book for young readers.

This was ok. It's a story about how night and day came to be and about sharing.

I received an ARC of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

An interesting pourquoi tale explaining how day and night came to be. The fox and the hare both wanted to hunt for food, one in light and one in dark. They had to figure out a way to share the time between both. This is a wonderful addition to a folktale collection looking for another tale.

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I chose it because I am an adult who shamelessly reads children's picture books, but also because of the cover art and the fact that it is based around Inuit legend. 

So, the story opens with Tiri, an artic fox, and describes how his nocturnal eyes help him steal food in a world where there is only night. This is also apparently a time when speaking things makes them real. I want a story on how that magic was lost from the world. 

Book publication! 

Debt eradication! 

See, magic is gone. 

So, we get introduced to our next critter friend, Ukaliq, the artic fox. 

I feel like he is going to be important to the story since, ya know, he is on the cover and everything. Well, this rabbit hoppy-hops his way in and says the word day. Now, remember whatever is spoken is real in this world so...you guessed it, day arrives. In a world that has always been dark I wonder how the rabbit knew what day even was. Well, our fox is a night critter who can see in the dark and so as the sun comes up he begins to lose it because he can't see. He is, as you would say, BLINDED BY THE LIGHT. 

*Badum Dum!* 

So, our rabbit friend goes and finds some moss to munch on and as he is munching finds the fox feeling around like a blind man in the dark and he says, "I like it better like this." So, the conclusion of the story is...

Well, you gotta read it to find out. 

It is a good story. The more into it I read, I realized that I was reading about a world much farther north than my Mississippi town. Far up north the summer daylight can last for, well, days; and, the winter night can drag on for weeks. Remembering this fact made the story more believable. 

I did enjoy this read. I would have to say that I will have to get a physical copy of it for my collection.

While there isn't an overwhelmingly wonderful message and the story does not have much in the way of truth going for it, <i>The Origin of Day and Night</i> by Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt is a very cute story about taking turns. Perhaps the best thing about this book, for me anyway, was the fact that one of the characters is a fox.

I loved the artwork and deeply enjoyed the expressive and gorgeous arctic fox alongside the arctic hare as they battled for the ability to see. One felt more comfortable at night in the dark and was blinded by the sun while the other struggled to survive without the light.

Ironically enough, I imagine most people liking the hare, but I myself was more fond of the fox and his struggles while the young white rabbit just seemed like a snot to me. I loved them both, of course, and enjoyed the story immensely though I wouldn't say it's one of the best children's books I've ever read.

The fox and the hare fight regularly in a rather silly way for the world to live in night or in day until finally, upon realizing that the other will regularly work to change the state of the world to their preferred day or night, they make a compromise to give each other a reasonable amount of time to eat and survive before changing it back.

And thus, <i>The Origin of Day and Night</i>,

<i>I was provided a free copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.</i>

The Origin of Day and Night is a beautifully illustrated Inuit tale about how the cycle of day and night came to be. I had never heard this tale before and it is a really lovely story about a fox and a hare who have to work together to make sure they both get to eat because Fox eats at night but Hare eats during the day. The illustrations are sparsely colored and suit the story perfectly.