Why Is Blue Dog Blue?: A Tale of Colors

Why Is Blue Dog Blue? is the perfect picture book for animal-loving children to learn their colors!

Blue Dog’s creator, George Rodrigue, combines playful puns with new whimsical Blue Dog silkscreens to help readers learn all about colors and the reasoning behind art.

From basic primary and secondary to the exotic ones most color primers ignore, this book is a fun-filled demonstration of how artists use color to enrich their art.

Children and adults alike will be surprised by this imaginative and expansive explanation of Blue Dog’s color. And by the end of the book, they will see that the artist’s reasoning is both logical and magical: Blue Dog simply had to be blue.

George Rodrigue is the creator of Blue Dog, now an international pop icon. He maintains two galleries, one in New Orleans, Louisiana, and one in Carmel, California. For many years, the artist has visited with school groups across the United States. His website spotlights the artistic talents of kids.

 

Bruce Goldstone is a children’s book author and coauthor, with Marcel Marceau, of Bip in a Book (Abrams). He lives in New York City surrounded by his multicolored menagerie: lime-green and yellow parakeet feathers, black and brown dog fur, and white and orange cat hair.