Pantone: Color Puzzles: 6 Color-Matching Puzzles

by Pantone, Tad Carpenter (Illustrator)

Overview

Encourage children to test their color knowledge with six color-matching puzzles from the authorities on color with this interactive picture book, Pantone: Color Puzzles.

Preschool readers will learn to match shades of the six basic colors in this engaging puzzle book. Each page is dedicated to one basic color and features an illustration and a grid of shades from that color category. Can you match the four removable puzzle pieces from the illustration to their corresponding shade? An appropriately challenging and satisfying matching book for toddlers, preschoolers, and color-conscious adults, this puzzle book enables young children to further their color familiarity in a uniquely engaging way.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419709395
Publisher:	Abrams Appleseed
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Series:	Pantone
Pages:	12
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

PANTONE revolutionized the graphic arts industry with the launch of the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® in 1963, which enabled designers and printers to articulate and reproduce accurate color anywhere in the world. Today, PANTONE serves not only as the premier color consultant and authority in trends, but as a consumer brand in apparel, housewares, accessories, arts and crafts, stationery and office, home furnishings, and electronics product lines.

Editorial Reviews

10/07/2013
Color matching takes on new meaning in this puzzle game that joins a series of board books using the Pantone Matching System. Tucked inside six scenes illustrated by Carpenter are four removable cardboard pieces that fit into die-cut spots on the facing pages. A pointy spire in a blue cityscape has its home inside the “nighttime blue” quadrant of one spread, while two oval leaves in “grasshopper” and “dollar bill” green pop out of a jungle scene that highlights a frog, snake, and toucan. Lively interactive fun. Ages 3–5. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

2013-09-25
Another overdesigned board book, with puzzle pieces this time, from PANTONE, the company that creates the widely used color matching system. Each double-page spread focuses on one color of the rainbow. The left-hand side is a full-page, graphically minded scene using a variety of hues of the color in question. On the facing pages, the PANTONE chips make their appearance, four shades occupying the four quadrants of the page separated by a bold white line in typical PANTONE fashion. Both sides of each page spread carry four shaped indentations to hold abstract puzzle shapes made of paperboard. Featuring machines that go on the left, the red spread has pieces that become the door and siren on a fire truck. These same pieces fit into slots labeled "Stop Sign Red / PANTONE 485" and "Brick Red / PANTONE 7627" on the right. While the cartoon tableaux are droll, the use of PANTONE numbers will make little sense to youngsters. The puzzle pieces themselves are relatively easy to get in and out once loosened, but, after a few readings, they will likely flake at the edges if they are not lost altogether. The small pieces force this message on the back cover: "WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs." While the puzzle gimmick may hold youngsters' interest for a few readings, it is unlikely to have a long shelf life. (Board book. 3-4)

Kirkus Reviews