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Little Blue and Little Yellow Turn 50
It’s literally blobs of color scattered across pages, and yet Leo Lionni’s Little Blue and Little Yellow is still being taught in classrooms fifty years on.
It’s an introduction to color mixing – both literal and figurative. Some use it to explain how yellow and blue make green, red and blue make purple and so on. Others to break down race to a child’s level, showing how together white and black make something spectacular.
This month, Alfred A. Knopf reprints Lionni’s 1959 classic in a fiftieth anniversary edition, adding in an endnote from Lionni explaining the origins of the story (he created it on a train ride with his grandchildren). Lionni died ten years ago, as his first children’s book was celebrating its fortieth anniversary.
It was the book that would pave the way for a number of Caldecott Honor winners, and on a re-read, as touching and fun as ever. Get it at Amazon.
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Julie commented on Nov 02 09 at 7:21 pmMy daughter pulled this off the shelf at the bookstore and begged to bring it home. I though it looked dull, but fortunately I bought it anyway. A year later, she and her sister still read it regularly–they LOVE it.
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