Jason Fulford (born in Atlanta, 1973) is a photographer and cofounder of the non-profit publisher J&L Books. Fulford’s photographs have been featured in Harper’s, New York Times Magazine, Blind Spot, and Aperture magazine. He has published many books of his work, including Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), Hotel Oracle (2013), and Picture Summer on Kodak Film (2020), as well as coedited The Photographer’s Playbook (with Gregory Halpern, Aperture, 2014). He is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.
This team again brings us a thought-provoking book that can help to explore new ways of seeing and thinking about things. Here, the reader is using cutout shapes in the book to "find" something of the color which the shape corresponds with (for example, gray for elephant shape and white for moon shape). It's a very cool idea, but not for with little ones who are just learning colors and need to see concrete examples on the pages. For this audience, looking for a color you are still trying to learn is an exercise in frustration. It would be great for older kids and I would love to use it in a classroom, too, but not for the very young. For this audience, having a conversation about colors and finding them in the space you're in or moving through is a much more fruitful and constructive way to approach this concept.
Shopsin, Tamara and Fulford, Jason Find Colors, BOARD BOOK. Phaidon, 2018. $15. 9780714876597
This board book features white pages with cutout shapes. It has simple instructions on each page: Find Yellow, features a cutout of a sun, while Find Orange features a circular shape. Twelve total colors.
This is a fantastic book to give an active toddler to four year old who is learning colors. It has more of an interactive feel and gets them up and moving. It would not be a great story time book, but a great book for a learning station or to hand to an active child. Sturdy pages could withstand the discovery of colors in a variety of settings.
This little board book is so clever! Each page reads "Find (color)" and has a cutout picture of something in that color. For example "Find purple" and a cutout of grapes. Your little one can hold it up against a purple backdrop to make the grapes turn purple. This is a great book for teaching and reinforcing how many colors are around us.
What a clever introduction to shapes and colors! This book has white pages with cutout shapes that the kids use as an interactive tool. The first page says: "Find Yellow" and there is a cutout of a sun. The active toddler can them explore the world by looking through the cutout to find the color. SO MUCH FUN!!!
I love this inventive board book that encourages its readers to find the green to fill in a leaf and colors to fill a rainbow. My preschooler and I had fun running around the house to fill the pages.
This is a board book that is done in completely black and white pages. The pages have cutouts that little readers can look through to find the color that is listed on the page.