Colors of the Pacific Northwest: Explore the Colors of Nature. Kids Will Love Discovering the Amazing Natural Colors in the Pacific Northwest, from the Red Sapsucker to the Green Douglas Fir.

by Amy Mullen

Overview

The Pacific Northwest is full of colors, and this charming board book features this vibrant region in a unique and creative way.

Featured are red for the sapsucker, brown for the pine marten, black for the black bear, silver for coho salmon, and green for the Douglas fir, among others. There is a fantastic world of colors, wildlife, and vegetation to be discovered, and this book is perfect for the little citizens of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. A perfect book for summer reading.

Also available:

Colors of the Southwest

Colors of New England

Colors of the National Parks (Coming soon)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938093807
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	03/07/2017
Series:	Naturally Local Series
Pages:	20
Sales rank:	344,535
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Amy Mullen is a self-taught digital illustrator living in Arlington, Virginia. She graduated from Sweet Briar College with a BA in dance and a minor in English and creative writing. In 2009, Amy created Mint Parcel, a line of affordable art prints for kids featuring animals, monsters, pop culture figures, and famous literary characters. She has written and illustrated two picture books for Xist Publishing (Nursery Rhyme Time and Annabel on the Go, spring 2016). Amy has also written and illustrated a board book for Pomegranate Kids (The Colors of Ancient Egypt, fall 2016).
 

Interviews

Amy Mullen lives in Arlington, VA

Editorial Reviews

2017-05-10
In this board book, Mullen (The Colors of Ancient Egypt, 2016) brings readers the vibrant colors of the vegetation and wildlife common to the Pacific Northwest: flowers, birds, animals, a fish, and a mushroom.Each color is featured on a double-page spread, with the name of the color in capital letters and the capitalized name of the organism along with an illustration on one side and an additional, full-page image of the organism on the other. This book features unusual color pairings. Some of them may be more familiar, at least in broad strokes, to toddlers (silver coho salmon, green Douglas fir, white bald eagle, black bear), than others (red sapsucker, blue camas, brown pine marten, yellow chanterelle mushroom, pink bleeding heart). The digitally created illustrations are large, vibrant, and graphically stylized, with colorful patterned backgrounds. The unrealistic illustrations of chanterelles look like flowers in one view and yellow cupcakes in the other, and only the heads of the sapsucker and bald eagle are their respective colors, which may be confusing. This board book may be useful for young readers in that part of the country; however readers elsewhere may want to stick with such favorites as Tad Hills' Colors! (2015), Divya Srinivasan's Little Owl's Colors (2015) and Simms Taback's Colors (2009). Local readers may love this, but others will probably want to give it a miss. (Board book. 6 mos.-2)

Kirkus Reviews