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Colors! / Colores! Jorge Lujan

Colors! / Colores! By Jorge Lujan

Colors! / Colores! by Jorge Lujan

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Colors! / Colores! Summary

Colors! / Colores! by Jorge Lujan

Noted poet Jorge Lujan and South Africa's illustrious illustrator Piet Grobler teamed up to produce this exquisite celebration of color.

As day turns into night, we are given fleeting, evocative glimpses of the qualities inherent in a range of colors. An antelope and some children are pictured inhabiting this delicate world.

This bilingual, bicultural book presents us with a beautiful vision of a planet in which nature, words, and the rising and setting of the sun and the moon exist in harmony.

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.5
Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.6
With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

Colors! / Colores! Reviews

The language is by turns playful, contemplative and exuberant but always imbued with a subtle lyrical quality...This book pairs Lujan's text with the equally strong illustrations of Piet Grobler...Grobler's watercolour illustrations combine small whimsically detailed figures with loose wide bleeds of colour, each one managing to reflect the mood of the text perfectly. This is a lush and beautiful book...The English text is flawless while still preserving a subtle sense of linguistic magic and surprise...the book is captivating, aesthetically rich, linguistically fine-tuned, masterful...profoundly appealing...accessible for a preschool audience, [and] the originality and strength of the images will give it continued appeal for a primary school audience...a valuable resource for many classrooms and libraries...[a] success as a bilingual text. Highly Recommended. * CM Magazine *
Flowing watercoiors and charming rhymes in English and Spanish combine to convey the colors of the natural world with simple yet sophisticated grace...The imagery in both words and pictures is often richly original...A lovely book to share, reflect upon and linger over. * Kirkus Reviews *
Unusually lyrical-visually and verbally-this is a 'concept book' that will take children beyond simple colour identification and into an appreciation more profound and rare: for the colours and beauties of nature, and for the colours and beauty of metaphor. * Toronto Star *

About Jorge Lujan

JORGE LUJAN is an author, poet and musician. His body of work, translated intoeighteenlanguages, includesStephen and the Beetle, illustrated by Chiara Carrer;Doggy SlippersandNumeralia, illustrated by Isol;Colors! Colores!, illustrated by Piet Grobler; andMovi la mano / I Moved My Hand, illustrated by Mandana Sadat. He has won the Premio de Poesia para Ninos de ALIJA, and has been nominatedfor the 2024 Anderson Prize and nominated eight timesfor the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. He lives in Mexico. PIET GROBLER is a world-renownedSouth Africanillustrator of childrens books.He has illustrated ninety five books,which have been published in many languages, and he has won a number of awards, including two silver medals at the Noma Concours (Japan), the Octogone de Chene (France) and a Golden Apple at the Biennial of Illustration in Bratislava. He lives inPortugaland is the visiting Professor in Illustration at the University of Worcester, in the United Kingdom. JOHN OLIVER SIMON (1942-2018) was a poet and translator from Berkeley, California. Among other accolades, he was awarded the NEA Translation Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Berkeley Poetry Festival. REBECCA PARFITT is a translator who lives in DeKalb, Illinois.

Additional information

NGR9781773067421
9781773067421
1773067427
Colors! / Colores! by Jorge Lujan
Jorge Lujan
New
Paperback
Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
2024-02-15
36
N/A
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