Help me ID a kid's book about colors
December 2, 2009 11:44 AM Subscribe
Name-that-book-Filter: Large-format children's book, all about colors
Helping a friend find a favorite childhood book, so she can give it to my son. Here's what she remembers:
Helping a friend find a favorite childhood book, so she can give it to my son. Here's what she remembers:
- Big format (compared to a 3-4 year old kid)
- It's about colors, with each set of pages dedicated to one color
- The drawings were really detailed
- There may or may not have been words on the pages (I only remembers the pictures)
- I think there was a big paintbrush or something involved
- I especially remember the white page
Response by poster: Oops, forgot one more piece of data: Was published before (approx.) 1988.
posted by range at 11:59 AM on December 2, 2009
posted by range at 11:59 AM on December 2, 2009
What kinds of pictures did it have for each color? Animals? Cars? Abstract splotches?
Can you say anything about the artistic style? Was it photos? Cut-paper like the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar? etc
posted by LobsterMitten at 12:04 PM on December 2, 2009
Can you say anything about the artistic style? Was it photos? Cut-paper like the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar? etc
posted by LobsterMitten at 12:04 PM on December 2, 2009
Response by poster: From the second debrief:
"I don't think there's really a storyline, I just remember pictures, everything yellow, everything green, everything red, etc. Line drawings that were colored in, quite detailed..."
posted by range at 12:06 PM on December 2, 2009
"I don't think there's really a storyline, I just remember pictures, everything yellow, everything green, everything red, etc. Line drawings that were colored in, quite detailed..."
posted by range at 12:06 PM on December 2, 2009
Amazon has 317 results for Children's books, Age Baby-3, Basic Concepts, Colors. Maybe she could scroll through those and see if anything looks familiar.
If she especially remembers the white page, does she remember anything specific about it? An animal? A theme? Anything?
posted by Dojie at 12:50 PM on December 2, 2009
If she especially remembers the white page, does she remember anything specific about it? An animal? A theme? Anything?
posted by Dojie at 12:50 PM on December 2, 2009
If you take a paintbrush: A Book of Colors by Fulvio Testa first came out in 1983. (I searched Amazon children's books for "paintbrush", and this is the best fit I see in the first 5 pages or results.)
Some authors that you might like even though I don't think they're the one you're after:
Chris Van Allsburg, Peter Sis, David Macaulay, Graeme Base - very, very detailed drawings
Leo Lionni - his books often feature art concepts
posted by LobsterMitten at 1:00 PM on December 2, 2009
Some authors that you might like even though I don't think they're the one you're after:
Chris Van Allsburg, Peter Sis, David Macaulay, Graeme Base - very, very detailed drawings
Leo Lionni - his books often feature art concepts
posted by LobsterMitten at 1:00 PM on December 2, 2009
It couldn't be Shirley Hughes's Colours, could it? It was published in the mid-70s as part of her Nursery Collection, which is quite a large book, and it has--IMO--some of the best illustrations I've seen in a book of this type. My daughter's much too old for it, but we still read it because the pictures are gorgeous.
posted by MeghanC at 1:45 PM on December 2, 2009
posted by MeghanC at 1:45 PM on December 2, 2009
My Many Colored Days? I was just looking at it on my kids' shelf this morning.
posted by kch at 2:32 PM on December 2, 2009
posted by kch at 2:32 PM on December 2, 2009
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