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Crayon by Simon Rickerty (view source)
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|isbn=978-1471116797
|pages=32
|publisher=Simon & Schuster Childrens Children's Books
|date=January 2014
|aznuk=1471116794
|aznus=1471116794
|cover=1471116794
|summary=Red and blue together make...trouble! When the colours get into a scrap, it all gets a bit messy in this funny book where the pictures tell the whole story.
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This is a funny, minimal word book that nonetheless manages to tell a story about sharing and being friendly and including people and sticking to the rules (and inside the lines). It’s quite good for teaching colours to those who understand the concept, though it brought memories of my Psychology coursework on the Stroop Effect flooding back.
What it’s also good for is developing story telling storytelling ability, because there aren’t words to tell you what’s going on, you have to infer this from the pictures. If you ever wondered whether colours could show emotions, this book removes those doubts. Red looks sad, Blue looks perplexed, Red looks evil, Blue looks a bit p’ed off. And of course , it’s a bit naughty because there’s lots of scribbling on the pages and scribbling in a book with a pen, pencil or crayon is, as we all know, something you Just Don’t Do.
Fans of the author’s [[Monkey Nut by Simon Rickerty|earlier work]] will like this one also. It promotes the same sort of creativity, and is equally funny in a way even three -year -olds can understand. Fun for little readers but also fun for their care giverscaregivers, this one’s a winner. Highly recommended.
Thanks go to the publishers for supplying this book.
[[Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson]] gets a thumbs up too, especially when you're done with Red and Blue. You might also enjoy [[It's an Orange Aadvark! by Michael Hall]].
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