1. Picture Book- Concept

2. An interesting spin for a concept book, the author takes the reader on a journey through the four seasons giving them a chance to experience color in many different ways.

3. a. Text and Illustrations

b. I was a little confused by this book if I can be totally honest. I felt as though the book was too wordy or poetry like for a concept book. I had a hard time following or keeping my interest and I am an adult. Because of this I do not think that the text did the book any justice. I can’t imagine using this book with small children. I do not feel as though this is the best way to introduce, reinforce, or teach the concept of color. I believe that concepts need to be given to children in a realistic way, one in which the children can relate the concept to something he already has knowledge about, something concrete. I was also a little disappointed in the illustrations as well. There could have been so much more the illustrator could have done with the pictures of this book. When I think of a concept book on color, I think of pictures that are bursting with colors and very bold and bright. These illustrations left me unsatisfied.

c. The first page is a good example of the “wordiness of this book”. It says, “In SPRING Red sings from treetops: cheer-cheer-cheer, each not dropping like a cherry into my ear. Red turns the maples feathery, sprouts in rhubarb spears; Red squirms on the road after rain.”

4. If I were to use this book, then I would use it as a basic storybook. I may use it to coincide with the color concept in order to brainstorm ideas of what types of things are the different colors.