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3rd out of 93 books
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205 voters
Green
Die cut pages bring surprise after surprise in this magical new book from the "Queen of the concept book"—an intricate and satisfying homage to green, the color of all creation.
How many kinds of green are there? There's the lush green of a forest on a late spring day, the fresh, juicy green of a just-cut lime, the incandescent green of a firefly, and the vivid aquamarine o...more
How many kinds of green are there? There's the lush green of a forest on a late spring day, the fresh, juicy green of a just-cut lime, the incandescent green of a firefly, and the vivid aquamarine o...more
Hardcover, 36 pages
Published
March 27th 2012
by Roaring Brook Press
(first published January 1st 2012)
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The star choices disappeared. All I see is "clear." Which frees me to give this book 12 stars. The benefit of reading the not-so-great Caldecott winner was that it led me to Laura Vaccaro Seeger. I wish (on all of those 12 stars) that she has a book deal for all the colors a small child can name. Orange. Blue. Purple. Yellow. Red. The brush strokes are marvelous, wide, free: I can smell the paint and brush cleaner. I love die cuts, and I am giddy about Ms. Seeger's placements and shapes. Oh, the...more
If it's by Laura Vaccaro Seeger, I know I'm going to be surprised and amazed. This book takes surprise and amazement to a whole new level.
GREEN is an homage to the color green, to all of its shades and hues. Each spread is a painting that goes with the text, and each page has one or more cut-outs that include color from the next spread. The text seems to be a simple rhyming list, but as one who has worked really hard on the endings of my poems, I so admire the fact that her text is far from "sim...more
GREEN is an homage to the color green, to all of its shades and hues. Each spread is a painting that goes with the text, and each page has one or more cut-outs that include color from the next spread. The text seems to be a simple rhyming list, but as one who has worked really hard on the endings of my poems, I so admire the fact that her text is far from "sim...more
LOVE THIS BOOK!!!! Seeger’s text and illustrations require students to slow down and look closely and think. Each two-page spread in green, a 2012 Caldecott Honor Book, is dedicated to one particular shade of green. I finished this book and then read it again immediately, slowing myself down, savoring each page and thinking through the difference between the shades of green that Seeger features. Most of the shades are revealed through a nonfiction topic – forest green, sea green, lime green, pea...more
This book is amazing! I feel that this book should win the Caldecott award because the illustrations are so mesmerizing and riveting. This book takes something so simple, the color green, and turns into something abstract and complicated. Never have I thought so hard about the color of green and all of the meanings that it has. This book takes different shades of green on each page and interprets them, and puts a beautiful meaning to them with a picture. These illustrations are honestly breathta...more
The book, Green is the ultimate concept book with beautiful illustrations. The color green is portrayed in so many different ways that are really eye opening to children. This book's ornate details make it one of a kind. This book is a fun way for children to learn about their colors and could also be used for an art lesson.
Acrylics are the source of artistic media used to create the illustrations throughout this book. Color is a stand out feature in this book since the illustrations make up t...more
Acrylics are the source of artistic media used to create the illustrations throughout this book. Color is a stand out feature in this book since the illustrations make up t...more
How many different kinds of green can you name? Seeger begins with forest green, meanders through jungle green, zooms in on lime green, swims through sea green, and ends with an apple tree that is forever green. Seeger is not merely content to show youngsters different shades of green; she really explores and celebrates the wonderful world of green.
Each two page spread beautifully illustrates a different kind of green. Seeger’s painted illustrations are a feast for the eyes. The paint, thickly a...more
Each two page spread beautifully illustrates a different kind of green. Seeger’s painted illustrations are a feast for the eyes. The paint, thickly a...more
Beautiful...stunning...magical...poetic...this book is truly exceptional. Elizabeth Bird, in her review here on Goodreads, commented that she had the same feeling after reading this that she had after reading Jerry Pinkney's The Lion and the Mouse, and I have to say I felt the same way. Not only are there beautifully textured paintings that evoke so many things that are truly "green", but there are also strategically placed die-cuts, that pull the reader in even more, so that you want to flip ba...more
Sometimes you just want to show a kid a beautiful picture book. Sometimes you also want that book to be recent. That’s the tricky part. Not that there aren’t pretty little picture books churned out of publishing houses every day. Of course there are. But when you want something that distinguishes itself and draws attention without sparkles or glitter the search can be a little fraught. We children’s librarians sit and wait for true beauty to fall into our laps. The last time I saw it happen was...more
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Another stunning, imaginative offering from Laura Vacarro Seeger, this title highlights all the incredible shades of my favorite color, green. Thus, her die-cut illustrations feature the green of a juicy, just-cut lime, the darkish tones of pea green in a bowl of newly-shelled peas, and the slow-moving green of a caterpillar creeping across a flower petal, among others. Each double-page spread has a cut-out that belongs to the next page, and as readers reach the end of the book, they encounter o...more
Green, By: Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Audience: Kindergarten to third grade
Appeal: When learning about colors and or descriptive words (adjectives)
Application: I’ll read the book to the class and as I read different phrases I will use different voices so that the children can hear the descriptive words in a different way. For example when I read the page that says “slow green” I will read it as if in slow motion.
There is a page in the book where there is a picture with no words. I will have each stude...more
Audience: Kindergarten to third grade
Appeal: When learning about colors and or descriptive words (adjectives)
Application: I’ll read the book to the class and as I read different phrases I will use different voices so that the children can hear the descriptive words in a different way. For example when I read the page that says “slow green” I will read it as if in slow motion.
There is a page in the book where there is a picture with no words. I will have each stude...more
It's funny how a deep reading of something - even (or maybe especially) a picture book can really change one's attitudes and opinions. I approached this newly minted Caldecott Honor with some skepticism; we've seen this kind of stuff before, it's nothing new, whatever. About half way through it, though, I started really paying attention to the artistic placement of the cut-outs, which caused me to turn the pages back and forth, which in turn caused me to read the book over again several times, a...more
Green by Laura Seeger is a book that is well… about the color green. Seeger uses the pages to discuss the various shades and tints of green. It has cut out pictures that lead to the next page, which is always fun to find out what the cut-out will be on the next page. My favorite is the page glow green (where the illustrations really seem to make it glow) that turns into shaded green. The cutouts on these two pages are very creative.
I agree with Horn Book that this seems as if it can be a beginn...more
I agree with Horn Book that this seems as if it can be a beginn...more
Seeger's full-bleed paintings for Green are beautiful with cleverly selected and placed diecuts that turn the book into a puzzle of sorts (a trademark for Seeger at this point). The textures she creates just beg for you to reach out and touch them. Each spread feels like an art-gallery painting that rewards extended viewing. My favorite spread is the fern green one – I love the pop of the yellow moths. I do think the “wacky green” spread is a little weak – not because of the green zebra, but bec...more
I was a little nervous about how our girls would react to this book. After all, it's a book about a color with short page descriptions, more than a narrative. I was prepared for them to call it babyish, but I asked them to just check out the awesome illustrations. Besides, green is our oldest daughter's favorite color (or one of them, anyway) so I thought she might like it.
How silly could I be? Our girls loved this book. Such a fitting tribute to the color green. The die cut pages were amazing...more
How silly could I be? Our girls loved this book. Such a fitting tribute to the color green. The die cut pages were amazing...more
I absolutely loved this book. At first I admit I was skeptical, but that is why you can never judge a book by its cover. The book goes through many types of green, but not only does it name the different colors but the illustrations are just absolutely gorgeous. Not only that, but each page has a cutout, that corresponds to the page before or after it, whether in color(such as butterflies becoming a light or many others). This book is a fun way for kids to really take a look at the illustrations...more
Here's a fun and attractive picture book to read with a child. Seeger's clever designs are tailor-made for young readers. Each page offers inconspicuous cut-outs that are perfectly placed to create interest in the detailed images. Not merely appealing, the cut-outs are a method for stimulating dialogue, making this a title with great early literacy value. It's a book that can be easily re-read many times.
Green is also well-suited for new readers. Simple text matched with clarifying images, allow...more
Green is also well-suited for new readers. Simple text matched with clarifying images, allow...more
The book club I'm in read all the Caldecott and some of the Newberry winners for this year and this was one of them. Before I got to book club, my personal choice was Creepy Carrots by Reynolds and Brown, but after the discussion, I changed my mind to Green.
I flipped through Green and really enjoyed the adventure of learning about different shades and themes of the color green, and although I liked the oil painting illustrations, I didn't think they were new or noteworthy. That is until, I noti...more
I flipped through Green and really enjoyed the adventure of learning about different shades and themes of the color green, and although I liked the oil painting illustrations, I didn't think they were new or noteworthy. That is until, I noti...more
What a cool book! Green explores all things green, different shades and tints and hues of green. The pages are full of green objects, green textures. The illustrations are wonderful. Just delightful! The very best thing about the book is how there are cut-outs in the pages. Each page has holes in it, allowing bits of images on adjacent pages to show through. The holes allow a peek at the next page, but the real joy is looking back through the hole at the previous page, because the previous image...more
Wow! Laura Vaccaro Seeger really took the concept book to a whole new level with this book. Each page is about green, something green, a shade of green. I was so impressed with the first few illustrations with the forest and the sea. The texture of the paint on canvas was so striking, it wasn't until I was a few pages in that I noticed there are cut-outs on each page that correspond to the page before it and the page after. The most stunning was the table of peas that becomes the tiger's eyes on...more
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Green is a great concept book that teaches children the many different shades of the color green. There are very few words in this book but the pictures tell a story of their own. Each page has wonderful art work that would catch childrens' eyes.
The artist used acrylics and oil pastels in her book. There were also cutouts on each page that helped you pick out a hidden detail from the page before. Many of the cutouts were placed over an area of the page where there was a lot of detail and withou...more
The artist used acrylics and oil pastels in her book. There were also cutouts on each page that helped you pick out a hidden detail from the page before. Many of the cutouts were placed over an area of the page where there was a lot of detail and withou...more
For fans of Spring, gardens, forests or anything else green, this is a great and joyful book. Seeger's illustrations pull in other colors of the palette, while the simplest of text identifies a specific color in the green spectrum. It's the die cuts that Seeger has used before that take the book to greater heights. Leaves on one page become fish on the next - very imaginative and very engaging for children. The "jungle green," "glow green," and "khaki green" spreads are spectacular, and "wacky g...more
In my opinion, this book should win the 2013 Caldecott award because the illustrations by Laura Vaccaro Seeger are absolutely stunning. The colors on the painted canvas provides texture and dimension, and the planning and placement of each illustration offers a neat surprise on the following page. The vivid greens, blues, yellows, and reds really pop off the page as each painting appears as though it is from an art gallery, and one could feel the grooves and strokes of the paint. It is quite obv...more
Not only is this book about my absolute favorite color, it's an amazing describing book. The book literally talks about the color green. The author uses phrases such as "khaki green" and "never green". The pictures she uses are just amazing and I was very impressed with this book. For each description of green she has a picture so that the reader can understand what she means. For example, the never green illustration is of a stop sign. Clever right?
I would use this book for my students to noti...more
I would use this book for my students to noti...more
I saw this book on my way to my desk, and I had to pick it up because it was so eye-catching, and then I realized it was the same author of Lemons Are Not Red. I really liked Green, too, particularly since it introduces shades to children. I also liked the way it ended with a subtle environmental/sustainability appeal. I've asked the ordering librarian if we could perhaps get a storytelling copy. (We do have a copy of Lemons Are Not Red in our current storytelling collection.)
This book also incl...more
This book also incl...more
The book green was fully based on illustrations, or more so color. The only words on each page were the name of each color the illustrations were representing. The super awesome part of the illustration was how some part of the page would be cut out so that the next pages had the image. The pictures made up for much of the story the book was trying to tell, which was just to show all the different types of green there are. The style of the illustrations seem painted, like as if the color being s...more
Green celebrates the natural world and the interconnected of all living things. Th book is beautiful and subtle. Different shades of green are identified. Different painting techniques are used. Most pages have some cut-outs which pulls the color and texture from the adjacent pages onto the visible page. Generally this works beautifully. (The square cut-out between the tiger and the gecko, though, wasn't as well conceived). This book should be savored slowly at bedtime or laptime. Art teachers o...more
I don't often rate books like this five stars, but wow! This is a fantastic little concept book that will help children recognize all the different shades that a color can come in. On each page, there's a little cutout of an object that hints at the next page - if the next page is going to be "sea green," for example, it might be small circles that turn out to be bubbles on the next page. This is the rare picture book that I think spans many different ages - the very young will love the cutout a...more
Green is an amazing tribute to the color green in all its various shades. One of the really special elements of this book is the secret cut outs that reveal images on the page to come. This book is for children age two to six years old. Anyone reading this will appreciate the beauty of the color green. There are unique descriptions of the color green scattered throughout the book such as wacky green and glowing green. The cut outs provide a visual adventure. The ending is what I really connected...more
This book is AWESOME. It is all about the color green. It introduces all the different types of green out there in that it is "the color of creation." It is so creative and the illustrations are so cool.
It is good for children 2 and up. (I'm 21 and I loved it :) )
It is so cool how many things she comes up with that correspond with the color green. It is a good twist on a common, everyday color.
This could be used for a lesson about colors (green could be a color of the week or something), or it...more
It is good for children 2 and up. (I'm 21 and I loved it :) )
It is so cool how many things she comes up with that correspond with the color green. It is a good twist on a common, everyday color.
This could be used for a lesson about colors (green could be a color of the week or something), or it...more
A great book for those of us who love green. :-) Of course, I am the one who likes all but one shade of blue, and loves only certain shades of green. Oh well. I loved this book which not only celebrated the many colors of green all around us, but did it in such a cool way. Every time I turned the page I thought, "Oh! Neat!" I tried to guess how the next page would be. I was right once or twice, but usually surprised and impressed with what I saw.
Very fun. Could work in a toddler or preschool sto...more
Very fun. Could work in a toddler or preschool sto...more
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Laura Vaccaro Seeger is a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator and the recipient of a 2008 Caldecott Honor, Theodor Seuss Geisel Honors for both 2009 and 2008, a 2007 New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award, and the 2007 Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Best Picture Book. Her books include First the Egg, The Hidden Alphabet, and Dog and Bear, among others.
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