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The Great Blueness and Other Predicaments (Hardcover)
by Arnold Lobel (Author)
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A wizard brings color to a gray world in this jaunty outing. Ages 4-8.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  • Reading level: Ages 4-8
  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books (January 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0064433161
  • ISBN-13: 978-0064433167
  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 8 x 0.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars 5 customer reviews (5 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Too much Blue.........color and perception, July 13, 2006
Color becomes metaphorical in this children's book.
That is why I find it a work of genius.
I primarily use it every year in K to 3rd education to open dialogs about color because I'm an artist turned teacher turned literature advocate and my vocabulary in a classroom is making. Someone, somewhere decided that in kinder and 1st grade "color" was a good subject at years start both in reading color words and in simple patterning and discrimination tasks- forgetting I think that children have related through it since birth, it is nonsensically simple to them tho it can be made very rich, so I look for ways to make this "concept" richer(like learning all the Crayola box color names and writing those or naming my reading groups "fuchia, chartreuse, pomegranate"). This is one of those stories to build depth. I just re read it awhile ago sitting at school thinking of how to use the story this coming year. On the surface a wizard color by color re tints the black and white world by inventing a paint that makes everything that shade. Too much of a good thing it affects mood and creates conflict(red) , sadness(blue) so on in people who initially are almost drunk with joy for the discovery and affect. So on the surface for the kind of child or teacher who are fairly on the surface thinkers, you can open up work teaching on emotional response to color from that.Lots to do there. Certainly as I connect into our art work the book serves a purpose in that way...so now we are talking abou