Color has the power to inspire and delight. The playful photographs here invite youngsters on an international urban journey with color as their guide -- from London's famous red double-deckers to New York City's shiny black limousines to Rio de Janeiro's multicolored playgrounds. The ten colors featured are each clearly presented in a main photograph and in a smaller focus image.
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PreSchool-Grade 1-Milich complements his powerful The City ABC Book (2001) and City Signs (2002, both Kids Can) with a dazzling new concept book. Beginning with a red London bus, a blue warehouse wall, and a yellow highway cone, his photos create a well-planned city landscape. Precise partial photos inspire speculation on each verso with the recto revealing the complete image. The secondary colors follow: a green swing, an orange cylindrical curb block, and a purple playground stool. Black and white are next, followed by a pink playground conduit and a gray I beam. A purely visual book, the text is simply the representative color for each photo. In summation, squares of all 10 colors appear above the words "Many colors!" and face a picture of a garage door painted in different hues.
Karen Land, Greenport Public School, NY
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Karen Land, Greenport Public School, NY
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Milich complements his powerful The City ABC Book and City Signs with a dazzling new concept book.
Photojournalist Zoral Milich’s previous books for children, The City ABC Book, and City Signs, were masterful, intriguing demonstrations of elementary concepts executed in a minimalist way, and in a way that never undercuts the graphic elegance of the page. These are sophisticated books that give small folk a taste of something quite fine. In his newest book, City Colors, Milich moves from ABC’s to red, white, and blue, and beyond. Milich’s modus operandi is to use a double-page spread to “illustrate” a colour. Take the colour red, for instance; One the left-hand page, a small square frames a photograph of a part of something red. The right-hand page shows the whole thing - or enough of it to determine that what we’ve got is a red double-decker bus speeding down the tarmac. Black - not a colour for some - is presented as a photograph of a square of blackness interrupted by an interesting piece of shiny chrome. A black stretch limonsine slithers across the black asphalt street on the right-hand page. Lots of aha! Moments here dressed up in pink, purple, and yellow, too.
Photojournalist Zoral Milich’s previous books for children, The City ABC Book, and City Signs, were masterful, intriguing demonstrations of elementary concepts executed in a minimalist way, and in a way that never undercuts the graphic elegance of the page. These are sophisticated books that give small folk a taste of something quite fine. In his newest book, City Colors, Milich moves from ABC’s to red, white, and blue, and beyond. Milich’s modus operandi is to use a double-page spread to “illustrate” a colour. Take the colour red, for instance; One the left-hand page, a small square frames a photograph of a part of something red. The right-hand page shows the whole thing - or enough of it to determine that what we’ve got is a red double-decker bus speeding down the tarmac. Black - not a colour for some - is presented as a photograph of a square of blackness interrupted by an interesting piece of shiny chrome. A black stretch limonsine slithers across the black asphalt street on the right-hand page. Lots of aha! Moments here dressed up in pink, purple, and yellow, too.
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