Looking for a children's book on colour theory.

October 5, 2006 1:52 PM

I need help finding a (British?) children's book from the mid 1980's. It was an introduction to colour theory under the guise of a storybook. It had great transparent plastic pages that you could overlay to see the effects of subtractive colour spaces. I don't remember what the story was about, but there were lots of balloons.

Now that I do this sort of thing for a living, it'd be a nice book to have lying around my desk. I assume my parents got it in England, but I grew up in Canada so it could possibly be North American.

posted by krunk to writing & language (2 comments total)

Was it this? Or something similar?

Your post rings a bell -- though I suspect it's not the Heller book that either of us is thinking of -- I look forward to the book detectives' answers.
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:48 PM on October 5, 2006

Hmm... I wonder if that is it. If there were some photos of the pages, I could say for sure.

I can't find an original publishing date for the Heller book, so I can't rule it out on date alone... but that's not what I recall the cover looking like, and I'm pretty sure it was a taller, rectangular shape. Thanks though, I'll find it yet!
posted by krunk at 5:06 PM on October 5, 2006