Reviews for Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue?

The average rating for Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-16 00:00:00 Ryan Overbeek Citation: Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue? By Tana Hoban. (Greenwillow Books, 1978). 32 pages. Concept Picture book. Summary: Hoban uses colorful, full-page photographs, aligned with large dots at the bottom of the page to help readers identify the colors in the picture. Critique: a) Hoban's use of the colored dots is an expressly unique way to help young children seek those colors within the artful photographs. Her use of color within the photographs shows bright and bold shades against usually neutral backgrounds, helping readers hone in on the main colors. b) The photographs show children everyday items, portrayed in a unusual way because of their colors. Children see items in a trash can, fruit in a box, cars, construction sites, and fire hydrants every day. But, because of Hoban's artistic portrayal of these items, the vivid colors in these items stand out to readers, encouraging them to identify each color, and look for more colors in their daily lives. c) Hoban's photograph of an umbrella in a trashcan is particularly striking for its commonality, yet boldness, with the red, yellow, and blue standing out against the gray and brown of the street. Even more so, the photograph of trash in a gutter with five colored dots on the bottom of the page, really stretches readers to search for each tiny bit of color within the gray and black of the dirty street. Curriculum Connection: This would be a good concept book for pre-readers, encouraging them to identify the colors within each photograph. In another way, this book could be used in a middle grades art lesson on photography, encouraging students to see unique aspects of light, color and perspective in photographs.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-11-15 00:00:00 Maximilian Kratt 1. This book is a concept picture book. 2. This book takes common objects and has them illustrated with different colors. Each page has different colored circles on the bottom and the reader has to tell which color circle goes with the color of the picture. 3. (a) I think this is a very accurate concept book. This book takes that concept of different colors and tells the story and explains the concept through the illustrations. (b) I think this is a very appropriate book for children to read when they are learning their colors. It uses the illustrations to teach the concept and it helps them think about their colors and relate them to what they see in the book. It also gives them the opportunity to show what they know by picking the circle that has the same color as the picture does. (c) I really like how this book makes the reader show what they know. The reader has to make the connection of the colors by picking which circle has the same color as the picture. So for the picture with the bike, the reader has to look at the color of the bike and also look at the colors of the different circle and show which colors are the same. 4. I really liked this concept book. I thought it was really creative and I like that it makes the child have to participate in the story. I would like to use this book in future classrooms because I think it would be a great resource for understanding if my students understand their colors. I think this book would be great to use in a classroom setting