Customer Reviews

Color Dance

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It's appropriate for age 3 & 4 year olds to learn to read the entire book by themselves. Wonderful as a first reader!

This book is, for starters, quite visually beautiful. However, it can be confusing for children because of the way it is done. The "red" is actually magenta (looks like hot pink) and the "blue" is actually cyan (looks like turquoise). Because of the four-color printing process, some of the color blends are quite murky, the different shades of purple are not distinct, etc. It might actually be better enjoyed as a wordless introduction to colors for the smallest children, who will love to just look at the pictures.

The Color Dance shows 4 children, each "dancing" with a large colored scarf. There are the three primary colors, red, yellow, and blue, and as they overlay their scarves, it illustrates how the primary colors are mixed to create other colors. The fourth child overlays the colors with white, gray, and black to show how white makes colors paler and gray and black make colors darker. As it's said, a picture is worth a thousand words. The illustrations in this book make it easy for even a very young child to understand how colors are made.

I read this book when I was a child and I absolutely loved it. I will be purchasing it again if I can't find my old copy. The memory of this book has stuck with me from the first time I read it -- I learned names for all sorts of colors I didn't know existed! Do not listen to anyone that underrates this book -- take it from someone who enjoyed it as a child this book is wonderful for kids! Highly recommend it.

THE COLORS IN THIS BOOK ARE NOT GOOD. THE RED LOOKS PINK. THIS BOOK WAS DESIGNED TO TEACH PRIMARY COLORS AS WELL AS BLENDED COLORS. IT IS NOT DOING IT JOB. THE COLORS SUCKS IN THIS BOOK. DO NOT RECOMMEND. SHOULD HAVE TRUSTED OTHER REVIEWS.

My two year old daughter adores this book. I heard about it through a book list and then we checked it out from the library. She kept asking for it so we bought her own copy - love it!

I bought this book for my 4-year-old granddaughter. She loved it! Sometimes we dance while we read it and sometimes we talk about different color combinations. Great one-on-one time!

My two-year old daughter absolutely loves this book. She loves the colors and the dancers and their scarves. She also has fun making the color combinations illustrated in the book with her own finger paints. It's a wonderful, beautiful book.