City Colors Book

A fresh look at the concept of color, with familiar urban scenes captured by Zoran Milich’s expert camera lens.

Susan Hepler, Ph.D. - Children's Literature

Clean city colors and a variety of settings characterize this color identification book. Photographs of a red London bus, a painter wearing blue clothes and painting a blue wall, a greenish-yellow traffic cone standing out from yellow cabs, a green swing seat, and orange poles that frame a fire hydrant and reveal an orange truck passing by all offer something for a child to relate to or talk about. Unlike the photograph books of Ann Morris which include more about the location in the book's ending pages, these photos could be taken almost anywhere and only one includes a child. There are many books available for young children that present a chance to talk about and identify colors and this one can join the pile, but it is outshone by books such as Tana Hoban's Colors Everywhere or Of Colors and Things or photo essays by Ann Morris or Margaret Miller. 2004, Kids Can Press, Ages 2 to 5.