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It's a great big colorful world / Tom Schamp.

Schamp, Tom, (author,, illustrator.). Hutchison, Michele, (translator.).

Summary:

One winter morning, Otto the cat looks out the window and sighs, "Why is everything so grey today?" Luckily, his friend Leon the chameleon is around to show him just how many colours there are in the world. In these exciting and funny spreads, Leon and Otto identify people, places, and things of every hue. On pages dedicated to a single colour, Tom Schamp's drawings play with perspective and unexpected pairings. An enormous Bengal tiger lords over an orange-tinted world, while a giant blue whale dwarfs elephants, pairs of jeans, and police officers. Throughout, puns and allusions elicit laughs from parents and children alike.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9783791374246
  • ISBN: 3791374249
  • ISBN: 9783791374369
  • ISBN: 3791374362
  • Physical Description: 29 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm
  • Publisher: Munich ; Prestel, [2020]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published in Dutch as "Het mooiste boek van alle kleuren". Lannoo Publishers, 2018.
Target Audience Note:
Preschool.
440L Lexile
Decoding demand: 82 (very high) Semantic demand: 96 (very high) Syntactic demand: 55 (medium) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile
Language Note:
Translated from the Dutch.
Subject: Colors > Juvenile fiction.
Cats > Juvenile fiction.
Chameleons > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Picture books.
Fiction.

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It's a Great Big Colorful World


A gray day turns into a kaleidoscope of fun in this marvelously offbeat and stimulating journey through the world of colour.One winter morning, Otto the cat looks out the window and sighs, "Why is everything so gray today?" Luckily his friend Leon the chameleon is around to show him just how many colors there are in the world. In these exciting and funny spreads filled to the brim with brilliantly illustrated objects, Leon and Otto identify people, places, and things of every hue. On pages dedicated to infinite shades of a single color, Tom Schamp's brilliant drawings play with perspective and unexpected pairings. An enormous Bengal tiger lords over an orange-tinted world, while a giant blue whale dwarfs elephants, pairs of jeans, and police officers. Throughout, cleverly inserted puns and allusions will elicit plenty of laughs from parents and children alike. Parents will enjoy the numerous ways color is depicted and kids will spend hours looking for their friends Otto and Leon as they traverse the busy pages. Best of all, this delightful adventure comes to a perfect end when all the colors come together in one beautiful, joyful rainbow of fun.

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