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Anthropomorphized colors take charge in this fanciful book in praise of the seasons, from the collaborators behind This Is Just to Say. An androgynous crowned youth, dressed ornately in triangular apparel, plays host as colors are woven into unrhymed poetry. In spring, pink is "hairless,/ featherless,/ the color of/ new/ things," while in summer, the youth finds a companion whose headpiece is a cross between a crown and a cowboy hat (filled with fish, no less), and the two royal personages indulge in popcorn and lemonade on the dock of a bay. Fall strikes a more melancholy tone: "the wind feels black:/ star-spangled,/ full of secrets," as an enormous whale blends into the nightscape. Broad swathes of color compose the seasonal palettes, juxtaposed with painstakingly precise designs. The effect is evocative of primitive antiques: fleur-de-lis, checkered print and scrawled calligraphy abound, creating an artful-if, at times, precious-display that works in tandem with the gentle musings of the imagistic verse. The regal elegance is sure to charm. Ages 5-8. (Publishers Weekly )
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In spring, Red sings from tree-tops: cheer-cheer-cheer, each note dropping like a cherry into my ear With original and spot-on perceptions, Joyce Sidman brings the colors of the seasons to life in a fresh light, combining the senses of sight, sound, smell and taste. Illustrator Pam Zagarenski's interpretations go byeond the concrete, allowing us to not just see color, but feel it.
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Stunningly Simple, April 19 2009
By Nicola "spends too much on books" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors (Hardcover)
I have been inspired by Joyce Sidman to get back to what I love doing best - reading brilliant children's literature and raving about it to any unfortunate who happens to bother to read it.There are a lot of poems about color out there and I am sure that practically any elementary-aged child in the English-speaking world has had to write one. It's pretty easy and has a low-risk level (unlike my cat - long story). However, like most things that are pretty easy to do, they are really hard to do well.
I have spent many an early morning and late evening in my yard trying to think of an opening line for a poem about a cardinal. When you live in the northern regions of this fair land, the sight of a cardinal's scarlet plumage against eye-searing-white snow is sometimes the only hope you have that the world is still turning and you're not stuck in this frozen wasteland forever. Don't get me wrong, winter is beautiful when it first comes and everything is clean white,
"White dazzles day
and turns night
inside out."
But, at a certain point, you need to see green.
Luckily for me, Sidman knows this, too and she comes endowed with the magic touch with words. It's like she got inside my heart - because, truly, that's where poetry germinates - and translated it in to these beautiful poems - because, truly, that's what the poets you love do.
"And Red?
Red beats inside me:
thump-thump-thump."
Sidman is frugal but never meagre with her words. They take on the exact shape, smell, and feel of the season's passing colors. The verses are short but complete and leave pleanty of room for the stunning art work of Zagarenski. Verse and picture blend seamlessly together. Zagarenski never tries to "outcolor" the poems,and her palate is rich and delicious just when it needs to be. Zagarenski also illustrated Sidman's This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgivenessand the same crowned and whimsically dressed figures run through these pages. The cardinal is ever present with his own crimson crown. Each page tells a story and I discover something new every time I read the book.
Luckily for us, Sidman and Zagarenski know how to make a simple thing look and sound stunningly difficult.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
this book sings; we sing!, Mar 3 2010
By mama reads - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors (Hardcover)
Our family loves books. We've been unable to return this one to the library without buying a copy for ourselves. When my 2.5 yr old daughter recites,"...and
each note drops
like a cherry
into
my
ear,"
her tremendous joy is reason enough to recommend this book to anyone who loves words, loves colors and appreciates the seasons.
The lush illustrations are worthy of a book that speaks in color--a delight!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Colors Dance, Jan 5 2010
By Catherine W. Hughes - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors (Hardcover)
Colors dance through the seasons, from spring to winter and back again, following the red cardinal's "cheer," and presence throughout the year. Told in seasonal poems, the greens of spring, the blues of summer, the oranges and blacks of fall and the whites of winter, burst forth onto the pages, with painted and mixed media illustrations. The lyrical lines of color let the reader look at the beauty of four seasons. Children ages 5-8 will sing song with these poems of the year.
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