A Rainbow All Around Me - Hardcover

Pinkney, Sandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 043930928X ISBN 13: 9780439309288

Publisher: Cartwheel, 2002

Synopsis

A thoughtful look at colors, this photo essay is Myles and Sandra Pinkney's follow-up to their debut title, SHADES OF BLACK, winner of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Children's Literary Work.

Red
Hot
Full of love
Cinnamony sweet
A Happy Valentine

Purple
Wild
Crazy
Nutritious and delicious
Jammin' on a slice of bread

About this title

Review:

What comes to mind when you think of the color black? How about white? Blue? Yellow? Green? In their vibrant book about color, Sandra and Myles Pinkney step beyond the basic color-teaching concept to encourage young readers to consider color in a broader spectrum. Accompanying simple, dynamic text, photos of many multicultural children fill the pages of this book, representing a veritable rainbow of ethnic groups. A Hungarian Italian boy, swathed in denim, is on the blue page: "Cool / RUGGED / Sippin' on a hot day / Relaxing in the BREEZE." The green page is for an African American-Native American-Portuguese girl. Brown is Vietnamese, Tan--West African, Pink—-Dutch German. Each spread is filled with the luscious featured color: purple jam, purple T-shirt, purple teddy bear; tan sand, tan outfit. Children of all backgrounds will love learning their colors with the cute, very real-looking kids on these pages. Sandra and Myles Pinkney previously collaborated on Shades of Black : A Celebration of Our Children. (Ages 2 to 5) --Emilie Coulter

About the Author:

Sandra Pinkney and her husband, Myles, live in Poughkeepsie, New York, with their three children - all of whom appear in Shades of Black. "I am the midnight blur in a licorice stick and the golden brown in sugar," says Sandra's lyric text at one point. Each such statement - summarized by the phrase, "I am Black. I am unique." is accompanied by an exquisite photograph of an African American child of corresponding skin tone, holding the food to which he or she is being compared. The book went on to win the NAACP Image Award in 2001 for Outstanding Children's Literary Work. Sandra Pinkney is also director of a daycare center in her hometown. Myles Pinkney is the brother of Brian Pinkney and the son of Jerry Pinkney. For more information about Sandra L. and Myles C. Pinkney, visit: scholastic.com/tradebooks

About this edition

• Publisher: Cartwheel
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 043930928X
• ISBN 13: 9780439309288
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Pinkney Myles