Take a Walk on a Rainbow

by Miriam Moss, A.J. Wood (Illustrator)

Step onto a magical rainbow and join Tilly and Grandad as they explore a dazzling world of colour. This work covers colour topics including, the colours of the rainbow, camouflage, warning colours and the relationships between light and colour and moods and colour.

Genres: Science

30 pages, Hardcover

First published November 30, 1999

About the author

Miriam is an award winning author of 75 children's books, both information books and fiction. Her fiction includes picture books, novelty books and poetry, and recently short stories for the adult market. Her books have been translated into over 20 languages.

Miriam has had wide experience of working creatively both with children in schools and libraries, and with adults. She offers lively, innovative large group performances, talks, interactive storytelling sessions, readings, seminars, creative writing and poetry workshops.

She was born in England but also grew up in Africa, The Middle East and China. She taught English for eight years in the UK and Kenya before becoming a writer. She now lives in East Sussex.

Reviews

[Vj]

Information content great; narrative seemed forced.

[Lauren Owens]

This is not the best book on light, but it is informative and correct in it's facts about the concept of light. The book discusses a range of information on light including the absence of light and seeing in color. At the back of the book, an activity is suggested to understanding that light is a mixture of all of the colors of the rainbow. By creating a color palette, sticking a pencil through the middle and then spinning it, the individual colors are not visible anymore. The palette turns white. Another activity that can be done almost anywhere is turning the lights off in a room, observing what colors are visible and then turning them on and observing again. This activity is an extension of the first pages of the book.

Grade Level: 1-2

[Villa Park Public Library]

This book provides a first look at the science of color. Using the many wonders of nature such as thunderstorms, rainbows, and animals’ adaptive colors the reader learns about how color is important in our world.

This book introduces some basic concepts about color in an engaging narrative format. For the adventurous and quizzical reader, the book also provides experiments with color as well as fun facts and other resources on this topic.

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[Codie Gates]

Take a walk on a Rainbow is a sweet story of a Tracy and her grandfather as they explore a dazzling world of color around them. Great way to introduce the concepts of colors and rainbows too. This book has a vocabulary page, a resource page, and a fun activity!!