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A World of Colors: Seeing Colors in a New Way
Contributor(s): Houblon, Marie (Author)

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ISBN: 1426305567 ISBN-13: 9781426305566
Publisher: National Geographic Kids

OUR PRICE: $14.41

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: October 2009
* Out of Print *

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Concepts - Colors
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - General
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Photography

Dewey: 535

LCCN: 2010278097

Age Level: 5-8

Grade Level: Kindergarten-3

Physical Information: 0.35" H x 8.9" W x 9.07" L (0.75 lbs) 48 pages

Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural

Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian

Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 09/15/2009
School Library Journal 10/01/2009 pg. 112
Booklist 11/15/2009 pg. 41
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2010 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
A World of Colors is an elegant photographic picture book, perfect for young children who are ready to stretch their minds. The book invites kids into a world where the relationships between colors and their objects are not always as expected, where bananas are not always yellow and where blue and blue and blue may be three different colors. What world is this? It's the real world. A combination of sumptuous photography and simple, interactive text makes this a perfect lap book to help kids make giant leaps in their observational skills. Readers are asked to find a whole spectrum of colored objects, from the expected-blue sky, green leaves- to the surprising-pink fish, blue feet. Marie Houblon gives preschool readers a grand tour through the colors of their world in lavish spreads that signal the name of the color in large type and show named objects in that color. The following spread challenges the reader to find the same color in photographs from all over the world. Thus, kids are taken on a world tour of orange, for example-observing orange tangerines on an assembly line in Japan, orange eyes in a robot toy in Britain, and orange hair on a little boy in Ireland. When the name for the color and the color itself don't match, the text is there to ask why we see things in a funny way sometimes-like why we call it red hair. Then, the reader is encouraged to look beyond the book to identify a world of colors in their own surroundings.

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