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Sky Color
CCBC Review:
An artist through and through, Marisol is initially stymied when she volunteers to paint the sky in the library mural her class is creating only to discover there’s no blue paint. But a bus ride home at sunset inspires a vivid, multi-sky-colored dream, and waiting for the bus in the rain the next morning affirms her realization that the sky isn’t always blue. She transforms observation into action, creating “sky color” from a whole mix of different paints to complete the mural. Peter H. Reynolds’s predominantly black-and-white, pen-and-ink illustrations incorporate explosions of color showing brown-skinned Marisol’s inspiration (the sunset-colored sky), her dream-world, and the mural she and her classmates create. ©2012Cooperative Children's Book Center
CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 4-7
Age Range:
PreK-Early Elementary (Ages 4-7)
Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-10)
Format:
Picture book
Subjects:
Art and Artists
Dreams
Observation
Diversity subject:
Brown Skin Unspecified
Publisher:
Candlewick
Publish Year: 2012
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9780763623456
CCBC Location: Picture Book, Reynolds