{"id":2015,"date":"2026-11-09T13:11:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2026-11-09T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:11:46","slug":"when-twilight-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/when-twilight-comes\/","title":{"rendered":"When Twilight Comes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/whentwilightcomesfc-960x1269.jpg?resize=525%2C694&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"694\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25298\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>When Twilight Comes: The Animals and Plants That Bring Dawn and Dusk to Life<\/em><br \/>\nby Marcie Flinchum Atkins (Author) and Michelle Morin (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/link.amazon\/B06d5cuyJ\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781797216799\">Bookshop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> When twilight comes, nature transitions: from night to day at dawn and from day to night at dusk. Inside our homes, we are getting ready to start our days or end them, but outside, crepuscular creatures-animals that are most active at dawn or dusk-are right in the middle of <em>their<\/em> days!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/whentwilightcomesint-960x641.jpg?resize=525%2C351&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"351\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25299\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s Nonfiction Monday!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The author, Marcie Flinchum Atkins, is one of my former <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/former-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">students<\/a>.<\/em><br \/>\nCopyright \u00a9 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. <em>(*bookstore affiliate<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Twilight Comes: The Animals and Plants That Bring Dawn and Dusk to Life by Marcie Flinchum Atkins (Author) and Michelle Morin (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: When twilight comes, nature transitions: from night to day at dawn and from day to night at dusk. Inside our homes, we are getting ready to start &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/when-twilight-comes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Twilight Comes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-wv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1153,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/night-creatures-animals-that-swoop-crawl-and-creep-while-you-sleep\/","url_meta":{"origin":2015,"position":0},"title":"Night Creatures: Animals That Swoop, Crawl, and Creep While You Sleep","author":"@roberta3","date":"September 13, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Doing a unit on nocturnal animals? 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