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If You Want to Find Golden

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My three year old son loves this book. He has mastered the basic colors and this book gives him an opportunity to expand his knowledge with colors like copper and golden. The illustrations are great, with lots to see and talk about on every page. The text is rythmic and lyrical, although I would omit the line that reads (no litterbug, you). I am extremely disappointed that this book is out of print... I'll keep looking for it.

My son and I really enjoyed this book as part of his 2nd/3rd grade homeschool reading program. The illustrations are very rich and the words are expressively poetic. We live in a small town, so the experience of the big city must be brought to him in literature. This book more than succeeded.

Set in the city, this book teaches colors by focusing on scenes that children who have grown up in the city will find comforting and familiar (e.g. gray for pigeons on skyscrapers; white for powdered sugar on donuts at the diner). For me, the book also somehow stirs fond memories of various places that we have visited on family vacations.