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Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors
"In FALL...Brown, / fat and glossy, rises in honking flocks. / Brown rustles and whispers underfoot... Red splashes fall trees / seeps into every vein / of every five-fingered leaf... Yellow grows wheels / and lumbers / down the block, blinking: / Warning--classrooms ahead." Joyce Sidman uses rich and vivid imagery as she describes colors in terms of sights and sounds and activities of the seasons. The result is a lyrical picture book that is a delight to read or hear, and a natural launching point to inspire descriptive writing. Sidman's observations are playfully acute, with associations that will surprise and delight readers and listeners as they juxtapose familiarity and inventiveness. "In Summer / White clinks in drinks. Yellow melts / everything it touches... / smells like butter, / tastes like salt." Pamela Zagarenski's whimsical illustrations accompany Sidman's words. CCBC categories: Seasons and Celebrations. ©2009 Cooperative Children's Book Center
Illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 4-8
Age Range:
PreK-Early Elementary (Ages 4-7)
Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-10)
Format:
Picture book
Subjects:
Colors (Concept)
Observation
Seasons
Publishers:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin
Publish Year: 2009
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9780547014944
CCBC Location: Picture Book, Sidman