Color Makes the World Go Round

 
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Age Range
4+
Release Date
October 01, 2024
ISBN
978-1760659424
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Imagine a rainbow without color, or flamingos, or red shoes. What about a zebra? Oh . . . hmmmm.
This whimsical, layered exploration through color celebrates that variety, diversity, and difference create joy.

Christopher Nielsen invites you to imagine a world with color . . . and without. Cleverly juxtaposing illustrations, he shows how color makes our world wonderful. Deceptively simple, this is a book that can spark discussion about difference and the richness and depth it adds to life.

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2 reviews
charming picture book that celebrates color!
Overall rating
 
4.8
Plot
 
4.0
Characters
 
5.0
Writing Style
 
5.0
Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)
 
5.0
COLOR MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND is a charming and colorful picture book. The story imagines a world without color and how sad it would be by juxtaposing color pages on the left with black-and-white images on the right of each page spread (until the reader participates in a little magic).

What I loved: This was a fun, and at times, silly, celebration of color! Readers will enjoy this thought experiment and giggle along with some of the asides as the young girl laments a world without color - and such things as the zebra who doesn't help. Children can consider all the colors in their life and how much they appreciate seeing them all alongside the text. This is an exuberant and charming read that will appeal to preschoolers and up.

The font is very clear and easy to read throughout without too much text on any page, keeping it turning as quickly as readers would like. The conversational style adds to the fun as the story is narrated by the character, directed towards the reader.

Final verdict: COLOR MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND is a charming and silly book that celebrates the colors all around us!
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What's YOUR favorite color?
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4.0
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4.0
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4.0
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4.0
A little girl LOVES color, and is dismayed when she thinks about a world in black and white. We see good examples of this; we see a full color page on the left, but a black and white page on the right, often continuations of the color picture. This gives us a black and white pot of gold at the end of a gray toned rainbow, as well as a zebra that isn't the best example! The little girl is determined that everything should be colorful so brings in a magic act and instructs the readers to close their eyes, repeat after her, tap on the book and turn the page... which of course is rendered in glorious color.

Good Points
As someone whose love of color was probably fostered by Brown and the Provensen's The Color Kittens (it's the only one of my childhood Little Golden Books that had the cover completely fall off!), I am all for having lots of color in the world. Painting an entire floor of a house the same gray? Bah! Wearing only the colors of pond scum? Ridiculous! Color may not exactly make the world go round, but it certainly makes it a happier and more interesting place.

The change between color and black and white illustrations is cleverly done, and will make an impression on younger readers who are not used to seeing picture books in black and white.

This would make a great gift for a young color enthusiast, along with a fresh pack of 96 crayons, or even better, the super large pack of 120 caryons! I wouldn't have known what to do with myself! Keep it on your palette along with other books celebrating the wonderful world of color like Elliott and Turk's Color the Sky, Reiss' Colors, Daywalt and Jeffers' The Crayon's Book of Colors, and Austin's Monsters Love Colors.
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