Show Your Colors

by Smriti Prasadam-Halls, Edward Underwood (Illustrator)

Overview

In a rhyming board book for the very young, each animal has a color to show off—but watch out for the surprise pop-up at the end!

From a duck with soft brown feathers to a donkey with strong white teeth, from a macaw with purple feathers to a fish with yellow fins, each animal on these cheery pages is happy to point out its special color. But what happens when Spider Jack pops up at the end to show off his long black legs? The rhythmic, singsong text combined with crisp, simple illustrations will have toddlers giggling along as they learn their colors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781536228465
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	07/04/2023
Pages:	26
Product dimensions:	6.35(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.59(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Smriti Prasadam-Halls is an award-winning, internationally best-selling children’s author whose books include Rain Before Rainbows, illustrated by David Litchfield; Not That Pet!, illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw; and Welcome to Your World, illustrated by Jaime Kim. Her books have been published in more than thirty languages. Previously, Smriti Prasadam-Halls worked at the BBC and in children’s publishing and television as a writer and editor. She lives in London with her husband and their three sons.

Edward Underwood and his wife, Lisa Jones, began designing and hand-printing their own line of cards in their London studio. These days they illustrate and adorn greeting cards and home wares from an old post mill on the edge of the South Downs in England. Edward Underwood is the illustrator of 100 First Words and the Baby’s First Cloth Book series. He lives in South Downs, England.

Editorial Reviews

07/01/2023

PreS-K—Every creature in this pop-up collection has a surprise of color somewhere. For Foxy Fred, his rust body includes a red tail. Shark Shaheen has a sparkly green eyes. Kitty Slink has paws that are pink. There are casual rhymes—"Myrtle" and "purple" lobbed at those reading this aloud, and an arbitrary villain. The shark is benign, and so is the snake, but the spider is told to run away and not come back. VERDICT Colorful nonsense, but not the necessary kind.

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