5/26/2023 0 Comments Green by Laura Vaccaro SeegerIt is an unrivaled success as a concept book. The book is a delight of surprises, new perspectives, and just speaks to everything that this format can be for children. Turn the first page and you will be astonished to find die cuts in the page, done so smoothly and carefully that they don’t ever look like holes in the page until the page is turned. They have a great depth of color and maintain a playful lightness that speaks to the young audience. The illustrations are paintings that are done with plenty of thick paint, the brushstrokes visible making the pictures tactile. This is my pick for the Caldecott winner so far this year. The book is written simply with only a couple of words per page, making the focus of the book the illustrations. There are odd sorts of green too like wacky green, slow green and even no green at all. Lime green, pea green, faded green and fern green. There is sea green, shown with a turtle gliding through not only green but purples, reds, oranges and yellows too. Seeger looks at the different sorts of green that surround us. Let me try to do better than that though. That could be my entire review, just WOW.
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