The Black Book of Colors
Living with the use of one's eyes can make imagining blindness difficult, but this innovative title invites readers to imagine living without sight through remarkable illustrations done with raised lines and descriptions of colors based on imagery. Braille letters accompany the illustrations and...
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Living with the use of one's eyes can make imagining blindness difficult, but this innovative title invites readers to imagine living without sight through remarkable illustrations done with raised lines and descriptions of colors based on imagery. Braille letters accompany the illustrations and a full Braille alphabet offers sighted readers help reading along with their fingers. This extraordinary title gives young readers the ability to experience the world in a new way.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780888998736 (0888998732)
Publish date: June 28th 2008
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Pages no: 24
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Juvenile,
Art,
Poetry,
Picture Books,
International,
Storytime,
Disability
This book could easily be Newbery-bait, the kind of book that wraps itself in an unimpeachable subject to make you respect it when you don't love it. It's a book about blindness for children. The pages are all black with white text, as well as Braille embossed above. On the pages where there is no t...