Green
Title: Green
Author: Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Illustrator: Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Publisher: Roaring Brook
Year of Publication:2012
Genre: Fiction
Horn Book or Kirkus Reviews rating: Kirkus Star Review Book
Summary: Incorporating many different art elements into her book, including different shades of green, the use of oil paints, and cut-outs in the pages; Seeger describes all of the different shades of green.
Summary of Kirkus Review: Seeger explores the color green while including simple paintings with preciesly placed die cuts that serve multiple purposes, in the first page the leaves that accompany "forest green" turn into fish when the page is turned to "sea green". In the last four lines, we see "all green", "never green", "no green", and "forever green". As these four lines are read we see a new life beginning; a tree is growing a new branch with trees. Seeger varies in her painting styles such as giving some shades of green more defined pictures than others.
Review by Terese Wylie: With it's simple writing (two words per picture) and beautiful illustrations, Seeger takes us on a journey through the color green. The book gives the reader more of a visual story than one that is normally told with writing; taking the idea of a picture book almost back to the most literal meaning of a picture book. For each reader, different emotions may be evoked; young children may enjoy the pictures and the simple text while adults reading it might marvel in Seeger's creativity in using pictures to tell the story more than the words, which serve more as descriptions than actual liturgical text.
This book would be useful when teaching…
Author: Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Illustrator: Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Publisher: Roaring Brook
Year of Publication:2012
Genre: Fiction
Horn Book or Kirkus Reviews rating: Kirkus Star Review Book
Summary: Incorporating many different art elements into her book, including different shades of green, the use of oil paints, and cut-outs in the pages; Seeger describes all of the different shades of green.
Summary of Kirkus Review: Seeger explores the color green while including simple paintings with preciesly placed die cuts that serve multiple purposes, in the first page the leaves that accompany "forest green" turn into fish when the page is turned to "sea green". In the last four lines, we see "all green", "never green", "no green", and "forever green". As these four lines are read we see a new life beginning; a tree is growing a new branch with trees. Seeger varies in her painting styles such as giving some shades of green more defined pictures than others.
Review by Terese Wylie: With it's simple writing (two words per picture) and beautiful illustrations, Seeger takes us on a journey through the color green. The book gives the reader more of a visual story than one that is normally told with writing; taking the idea of a picture book almost back to the most literal meaning of a picture book. For each reader, different emotions may be evoked; young children may enjoy the pictures and the simple text while adults reading it might marvel in Seeger's creativity in using pictures to tell the story more than the words, which serve more as descriptions than actual liturgical text.
This book would be useful when teaching…
- Green can be used for an art lesson on shades, brightness, and the colors
- Green can be used for a reading lesson for beginning readers
- Green can be used for less is more; fewer words can allow for more interpretation or that a lot of words are not needed if the illustrations are well done