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Red, Green, Blue: A First Book of Colors
by
Alison Jay
On a gray and rainy day, a boy discovers a rainbow of colors in the magical world of nursery rhymes. Come along as he delights in blue with Little Boy Blue, orange in Old Mother Hubbard?s cupboard, and purple with poor Humpty Dumpty. This gorgeously illustrated, whimsical nursery adventure is just right for children learning their colors. Alison Jay?s uniquely beautiful co...more
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
May 13th 2010
by Dutton Juvenile
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After reading this adorable picture book, I find that it is perfect when teaching young children. The book is set up with each two-page spread being a different nursery rhyme. Included on the page is a color word in larger font so the child can see the color and then match it to the image. For example, “Little boy BLUE”, and “little bo peep left her WHITE sheep.” It is so much fun and the rhyming makes learning about colors fun and interesting. The images in the book are quite beautiful and incl...more
On a rainy day, a little boy escapes into a world of nursery rhymes that is filled with a rainbow of colors. He moves past icons of nursery rhymes like Little Boy Blue, Miss Muffet and her big black spider, Bo Peep’s white sheep, and five pink piggies. Keep a sharp eye out for other nursery rhyme characters in the background, because there’s a list at the end of the book to see if you spotted them. Told in a style that only Alison Jay could achieve with her vintage, crackling illustrations that...more
On a gray and rainy day, a boy discovers a rainbow of colors in the magical world of nursery rhymes. Come along as he delights in blue with Little Boy Blue, orange in Old Mother Hubbard’s cupboard, and purple with poor Humpty Dumpty. This gorgeously illustrated, whimsical nursery adventure is just right for children learning their colors.
Can you name all the nursery rhymes in this book? Can you spot all the characters as they hide on different pages?
(blurb adapted from Goodreads.com)
(32 pages)
Can you name all the nursery rhymes in this book? Can you spot all the characters as they hide on different pages?
(blurb adapted from Goodreads.com)
(32 pages)
The artwork for this book is delightful!
Its meant as a first book of colors, but while the colors are very vibrant they are not specifically pointed it, the parent reading the book must do that. So its not just this is the color like many color books are, its fairly interactive in that you and the child must point out the colors and search for some of the nursery rhyme characters. It could also just be read as a book and simply enjoyed.
Its meant as a first book of colors, but while the colors are very vibrant they are not specifically pointed it, the parent reading the book must do that. So its not just this is the color like many color books are, its fairly interactive in that you and the child must point out the colors and search for some of the nursery rhyme characters. It could also just be read as a book and simply enjoyed.
I love Allison Jay's old fashioned illustrations, and I think they work particularly well with the nursery rhymes. This is a very nice addition to the preschool nursery rhyme fare, it isn't too complicated like some mashups of nursery rhymes, but it also isn't so simple as to bore the kids. Plus it is colors, which is simple and fun.
Fantastic artistic coloring and technique, though some of the images and implications would be more frightening than soothing to children (ie. the farmers wife with the Three Blind Mice)and the text was an overly summarized and modernized compilation of Nursery Rhymes that lost all appeal after being reshaped and shorn.
This was a gorgeous children's book. The illustrations were Beautiful, even elegant and luminous as the book described it. The story was actually classic nursery rhymes with hidden rhymes to find. Magical.
This book incorporates nursery rhymes with colors. The words of the color are written bigger so its more emphasized. I would read this book to very young children. Pre-k
This is a good book to learn colors from. The illustrations are wonderful. I would read this book then read the nursery rhymes that they came from.
I really like her 1-2-3 book as well, both have beautiful illustrations with a nursery rhyme theme.
A lovely introduction to color using familiar nursery rhyme characters. Gorgeous illustrations.
The illustrations are whimsically old-fashioned and made my girl giggle.
Loved the illustration but felt the text was lacking.. just a tad bit!
Book about colors. References classic nursery rhymes in the story.
Colors through nursery rhymes..clever idea.
Gorgeous illustrations.
Cute concept book introducing colors and many nursery rhymes.
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Alison Jay was born in Hertfordshire, grew up in Derbyshire and studied graphic design in London where she now lives. After graduating she worked in animation for a short while but gradually started to get commissions in illustration. She works in Alkyd a quick drying oil paint on paper and sometimes adds a crackle varnish to give the work an aged appearance. She has worked in all areas of illustr...more
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