White is for Blueberry
Author: George Shannon
Illustrator: Laura Dronzek Publisher: Greenwillow Books Year of Publication: 2005 Genre: Children's Nonfiction Horn Book Review: 2 |
Summary: The book allows the audience to look at things in nature in a different way. The book includes all of the colors that we know and that we see everyday, but the book allows us as readers to see things differently, and not as we would normally see them. This story allows the students to see colors that they have not normally seen on certain objects.
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Review by Sarah Custard: I believe this book could be a little confusing for young students. In Kindergarten, the students are just learning their colors and to say that objects have different colors than the children actually thought may confuse them. They are just learning that blueberries are blue, and this book tries to tell students that they are white; although it does give them an explanation, they might not understand it completely. It is very clever to write the book like this, but it may need to be worded a different way. I believe the illustrations help with the text and make it a little bit more understandable, but I think this is too advanced for Kindergarten and maybe even First Grade.
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This book could be used to help the children see things in nature a little differently; they would be able to go out into the world and notice the different colors in all of the objects that they see. It would help reinforce their colors because a teacher could ask the students what color is a blueberry, and then explain to them why/when they could see it as the color white. This book could help the students really think about all of the different colors that they see during their day.
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