Vivid: Poems & Notes About Color

(Hardback)

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Orange you sweet Orange you plump and juicy Orange you my favorite fruit Hey -you're a tangerine! B-lime-y. Playful poems and facts celebrate the colors of the rainbow in this beautiful nonfiction picture book. With information about the science of sight and perception, pigment origins in art and textiles, colloquial expressions and word associations, there's so much to see in each vivid spread-a wonderfully sensory read. Godwin Books

Reviews

"Paschkis' gouache-on-paper illustrations are elegant, playful, and expressively variable from page to page--each spread displays a new style and mood . . . Full to bursting, juicy, never jammed." --Kirkus Reviews on Vivid: Poems & Notes About Color

"This is a celebration in text and art of words, of language, and of the spaces between and their possibilities. . . . Kids will savor it however they meet it." -The Bulletin, starred review, on Flutter and Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido

"Paschkis shows herself to be a sensitive observer of the animal kingdom, as well as of language itself, finding humor, eccentricities, and unexpected connections in both." -Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Flutter and Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido

"Endings don't get any happier than in this global tour de force." -School Library Journal, starred review, on Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal

Author Bio

Julie Paschkis is a painter and award-winning illustrator of many books for children, including Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People, Building on Nature: The Life of Antoni Gaudi, and Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella. A love of pattern and of folk art shows in all her work. She lives in Seattle, Washington.