Spicy Hot Colors: Colores Picantes
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Colors explode off the page in this energetic, jazzy picture book introducing readers to colors in both English and Spanish. In a style brimming with rhythm and syncopation, author Sherry Shahan introduces nine colors by interweaving images and dance steps. Ecuadoran artist Paula Barragán’s illustrations capture the rhythm and vivacity of the text. This book, which Publishers Weekly called “a feast for the eyes and ears,” received a NAPPA Gold Award and was featured on the PBS Kids program "Between the Lions".
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Carrumba! This zingy color primer takes its inspiration from "the spicy hot colors sizzle on a Saturday night" throughout Latin America. Shahan (Jazzy Alphabet) riffs on the many ways that color plays out, south of the border: "Green as Mexican iguanas/ Slither/ Slide/ Samba!/ Green as cilantro and cactus./ Wiggle/ Waggle/ Rumba!" Barrag n (Love to Mama), a native of Ecuador, turns this free association into dazzling posters rendered in collage-like layers of bold shapes and vibrantly contrasting tones. The highlighted color often makes clear a new vocabulary word, too, such as the swash of orange worn by a several silhouetted figures, known as a sarape ("colorful shawl or blanket"). A multi-horned iguana strides the "Green/Verde" spread; standing amid cactus prickles and cilantro leaves, he flicks his red tongue. A few pages later, a panoply of warm browns (pardo) work in tandem to convey a tray of pinwheeled, star-shaped bu eulos (fried dough) alongside a guitarist strumming a serenade on a chocolate-colored guitar. A short glossary and pronunciation guide conclude this feast for eyes and ears. Ages 3-8.
