Pom, Flora, Alexander, and Arthur go to Babar's studio and learn about mixing and using colors.
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Text: English, French (translation)
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Laurent de Brunhoff has kept the picture book world's most beloved elephant going strong for over 50 years. He has created over 30 books featuring the character created by his father, Jean de Brunhoff.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
King of elephants, knave of theory,
By labologie (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Babar's Book of Color (Hardcover)
My two year old son loves the pictures in this book, especially the giant blue whale and the tan camels. But don't take it too seriously as an introduction to mixing color. Babar may be king of the elephants but as a color theorist, he's a lightweight. Babar tells us that mixing the three primary colors makes black. Then, a few pages later, he tells us that to make brown you have to mix the three primary colors PLUS black. What? But I thought... Also strange--the "what will you paint with white?" illustration done in ice blue and every color BUT white. The problem isn't the contradictions but the fact that De Brunhoff sets himself up with the difficult task of bridging color theory, practice, and artistic convention in less than 30 pages. In a children's book! But kids will probably like the bright, clean illustrations. Also odd (in a non-color mixing way)--the page where Flora, Babar's elephant daughter, paints a herd of ten naked elephants.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun even for "non-Babar" fans!,
By Urban Mom (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Babar's Book of Color (Hardcover)
Even if you're not a Babar fan, you should seriously consider this over-sized book filled with vibrant illustrations. It's a fun introduction on how mixing two or more colors can create a whole new color. And yes (as the other reviewer correctly points out) some of the suggested mixing formulas aren't likely to produce the same outcome as the book would suggest, but hey, this is Babar's Book of Color afterall... not Isaac Newton's theory of color.
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