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El Libro Negro De Los Colores (2000)

by Menena Cottin(Favorite Author)

4.35 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

9708250198 (ISBN13: 9789708250191)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

review 1: This is such a unique book in that it is written in Braille! The English text is written on the bottom, too. I love the illustrations because every page is back, but has raised images that are paired with the text. Even for students who aren't blind, this would be a wonderful book to help students try to read with their senses (touch, hearing), as well as understand how blind students would read. This book also includes the Braille alphabet in the back.
review 2: I cannot stop gushing to everyone about this book. It’s poetic, original and unlike anything I’ve ever read. Although Thomas is blind and cannot “see” colors, he senses them in other ways. Colors are touches and tastes and smells. “Brown crunches under his feet like fall leaves. Sometimes it ... moresmells like chocolate and other times it stinks.” Water is colorless and therefore has “no taste, no smell.” Black is the “king of all colors” and is “soft as silk.” The Black Book of Colors is a journey into the blind person’s world. The book is nearly all black and written in both Braille and a white font on black background. Illustrations are raised black lines on black paper and are designed to be touched. They can only be “seen” through the fingers, or if you tilt the page into the light. The book was first published in Mexico in 2007 and won the New Horizons prize at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in 2007. It was also a New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008. less

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