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Blue Goose (2008)

by Nancy Tafuri(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1416928340 (ISBN13: 9781416928348)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

review 1: I thought this was a very cute book, but it didn't really hold my two year old son's attention. At the beginning of the book, you have a blue goose, a red hen, a yellow chick and a white duck. The background illustrations are black and white. The four animals decide to paint their barnyard. They start out with the three primary colors plus white. (The colors that correspond to the animals.) After they paint some things with those four colors, they decide to mix colors together to create other colors. (purple, orange, light blue and green) By the end of the book, they have painted everything and they no longer live in a black and white world.
review 2: Farmer Gray goes away and Blue Goose, Red Hen, Yellow Chick and White Duck decide to paint the farm. Duck pain... morets the fence white. Chick paints the flowers yellow. Hen paints the barn red. And Goose paints the roof blue. Then they start mixing colors to get purple, orange, green, etc. Farmer Gray returns to his bright colored farm, and then in the evening Blue Goose paints a wash of blue over everything as it turns dark. It was that final touch of painting twilight over the farm that took this book to another level for me. I loved the repetition of colors for the smallest children, the mixing of colors with the new color obvious to the eye of a child, and the richness of the hues being used. Tafuri's skill with simple lines in a picture book is evident here. Her illustrations burst from the pages, larger than life and with so few lines of text that the book is almost read in pictures alone. Highly recommended, as are most of Tafuri's books, for toddler storytimes about colors. Children as small as two will enjoy spending time with these barnyard friends and chatting about colors and animals. less

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