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jess_mango's review against another edition
3.0
Amazing illustrations. The writing fell a bit flat with my kids.
acourtofreading's review against another edition
4.0
The illustrations in this book are truly stunning! The story is very poetic and a new way to travel through the seasons and talk about different colors.
agnesnutter's review against another edition
4.0
"but when I hold the water in my hands, it's as clear as glass. I toss it up in the air to make diamonds." in love, always, with the way that jillian tamaki paints water, her wiggly lines when she draws people moving.
librariandest's review against another edition
4.0
The art is five stars. Gorgeous. On the first few reads, though, the story left me like huh? I thought it was a story about colors, about seasons, which is what I expected. But then it was about a girl turning into a tree and the ending didn't click for me.
On the surface, this is hardly a story at all (to be fair, a great many picture books don't really have stories -- just sequences). It took me several reads before I was like oh damn I think I get it maybe. They say blue is the color of the sky. And at the end of the book the sky is this bold red and orange dotted with black crows. Nice. How do we perceive the world around us? For that matter, how do crows perceive it?
So I think it takes some work to appreciate the text, but that's pretty true of most good poems and good art. I think this book could start some very interesting conversations with kids. And I do like books that ask a lot of questions.
On the surface, this is hardly a story at all (to be fair, a great many picture books don't really have stories -- just sequences). It took me several reads before I was like oh damn I think I get it maybe. They say blue is the color of the sky. And at the end of the book the sky is this bold red and orange dotted with black crows. Nice. How do we perceive the world around us? For that matter, how do crows perceive it?
So I think it takes some work to appreciate the text, but that's pretty true of most good poems and good art. I think this book could start some very interesting conversations with kids. And I do like books that ask a lot of questions.