Description
Product Description
This acclaimed Caldecott Honor Book is a visually exciting introduction to colors, shapes, and animals for preschoolers.
"Boldly designed pages easily carry to the rear of the room during story hours, and brilliant juxtapositions of vibrant primary colors will make children's eyes tingle." (School Library Journal)
"A masterpiece of graphic design." (American Library Association Caldecott Committee)
"Color Zoo is about concepts—shapes, colors, and animals—but also about looking at the world in a new and creative way." (Children's Books and Their Creators)
"Employs ingeniously designed, perfectly die-cut and bound pages which line up exactly to unfold nine distinctly recognizable abstractly formed animal heads. Immensely enjoyable." (CCBC Choices)
Shapes and colors in your zoo, lots of things that you can do. Heads and ears, beaks and snouts, that's what animals are all about. I know animals and you do too; make some new ones for your zoo.
Review
"A masterpiece of graphic design." -- "ALA 1990 Caldecott Committee."
From the Back Cover
Nine animals, nine shapes, and sixteen shades of color'everyone can have fun discovering them all by turning Color Zoo's full-color pages and watching a lion turn into a goat, an ox into a monkey, a tiger into a mouse. . . .
1990 Caldecott Honor BookNotable Children's Books of 1989 (ALA)1990 Fanfare Honor List (H)
About the Author
Lois Ehlert is the Caldecott Honor winning author and illustrator of
Color Zoo, as well as
Color Farm, and
Circus. She is also the illustrator of many other books including
Crocodile Smile by Sarah Weeks, and
A Pair of Socks by Stuart J. Murphy. She lives in Milwaukee, WI.
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