Alphaprints Colours

Alphaprints

by Jo Ryan, Sarah Powell, Pip Tinsley

A blue whale swimming through a blue ocean and a yellow snake slithering in a yellow desert are just two of the rainbow array of colorful creatures to discover in this innovative and engaging first colors book. Each animal is created by adding fun photographs of everyday things for children to spot to big, bold fingerprints, which have raised embossing for little hands to touch, feel, and explore. With easy-to-turn, graduated pages that feature eye-catching, multi-colored foil edges.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Kids, Animals, Storytime

14 pages, Board book

First published March 3, 2015

Reviews

[Faloni © · Rating 5 out of 5]

Students in our classroom finished reading "Alphaprints: colors” today & decided to make a rainbow from the beauty of early struggles of injustice; one can only begin to find in the United ghetto of America.

[Lorellie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A cute and practical color book, even if it is a little abstract for my taste. Tot enjoys it very much.

[Elise Bender · Rating 5 out of 5]

My dad bought me this book after he noticed I liked the holographic glitter on my play-gym. Sometimes I think he enjoys my play-gyms as much as I do because he’s always mixing and matching between sets. Anyway, my mom read me this book.

The bright colors, simple language, and fun textures were an excellent introduction to colors, imo. My parents seemed to enjoy spotting clever details in the book like button eyes on the green crocodile and strawberry ears on the pink pigs. Personally, I was mesmerized by the blue pages, especially the glittery blue fish.

My mom also pointed out a key design choice—the book covered all of the colors of the rainbow, in proper order. She taught me a trick for remembering the order, called ROY G BIV. My dad had never heard of this mnemonic (mom and I were both surprised) so my mom taught him about ROY G BIV too. Now everyone in the family knows more about rainbows thanks to this book (and my mom).

[Jessica reads stories · Rating 5 out of 5]

First book read to my baby 🥰 one month old.

[Diva · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very beautiful and engrossing with colors, creative, a bit whaky. Baby enjoys this.

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Appropriate grade level: PreK-1
Summary- The book is shiny and foiled the colors of the rainbow. Each page opens up to two pages that are distinctly for one color. It is illustrated with fingerprint art along with other creative objects that are hidden in the picture to represent other things. It starts off with the first color of the rainbow. Red "Red fox runs through the red wood." The fox is illustrated with the use of a fingerprint, also in the picture are other animals that are also illustrated with fingerprints; like to kola, the owl, and the mouse.
Review- The book is beautifully put together. The colors are vibrant and shiny. The pages are layered from smaller to bigger. The way the book is constructed it invites children to explore, touch, and play because besides how bright the illustrations are, the pages offer texture. I would even recommend this book for the pictures alone, very differently done.
2 Possible in-class uses:
1. Have the students identify whats in the illustrations. This book can start several conversations as the illustrations have a lot in them. For example, What do you see here? find the orange trees, identify what was used to represent these trees? Orange rulers the orange ape swings from. What else is orange? (as seen in the illustration)
2. Can use this book as a counting activity as well. For example how many animals can we find in the red woods?

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

🔻 Genre: Children’s book.
👁 Point of view: Third person.
🖊 My review: I was in the store and looking at the book aisle. Suddenly, almost from nowhere, the fluorescent lights bounced off the colorful shiny chapter dividers of this book. The brilliance caught my eye and I picked up the book. It was the Alphaprints: Colors book! What luck! Each chapter tells a tiny story naming the color in each chapter, then talks about the color in an animal (snake, monkey, etc.). This would be a nice little book to help teach colors and animals to children, although it might not work well with the color blind.
🔥 Dénouement: Pow! That’s it. Done. It was very abrupt. Poof.
The writing style: Very simple so that a child could read it.
🗝 What I learned: The shininess can catch one’s eye.
💫 What I like best: The colorful and shiny chapter dividers.
📌 Would I read this again? No, because I know my colors and animals well.
🤔 My rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
📖 Media form: Read book version at the store.

[Brett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very unique in terms of kids books we've covered so far. An EXTREMELY trippy combination of fingerprints, graphic design, and photographic elements (specifically the photographic elements) that make this one stand out amongst the multitudes. It's limited based on the primary and secondary colors you're gonna wanna teach a child but I could go for way more of this nuttiness.

[Anna McFarland · Rating 3 out of 5]

Going to do a review/reading reading of every book I read this year. Even if I only read it because of my daughter, I like the illustrations and the color for this one it will help my daughter learn colors. I also plan to count every book I read this year even if it is one I have read with my daughter 10+ times a day, go figure my first book of the year is because a savannna

[Katie Fitzgerald · Rating 3 out of 5]

The rhyming text in this book is its weakest feature, but the illustrations are attractive and amusing to toddlers, and they make good use of different shades of the same color. My two-year-old is enjoying using this book to reinforce her knowledge of the colors she has just recently learned to identify.

[Mort's Kids · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Alphaprints series is a bit bizarre, artistically, mashing up fingerprints and every day objects to tell a story.

Not my scene, to be honest, but I find this one at least more interesting than its companion book, Alphaprints: Words

[Samuel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very lovely book for littles. The colors are vibrant, the art is lovely and fun, and the writing is simple. The version of the book I read has raised fingerprint designs that also add some stimulation for young kids.

[Kate M. Colby · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grandie read this book to Jack over FaceTime. He loved the animals and vibrant colors, and he asked her to read it again. The second time, she flipped through the pages and he named every color for her. She seemed impressed.

[Quinn · Rating 4 out of 5]

My son loves this book. Lots of bright colors to look at, and the offset pages make them very easy for him to turn. I love the real-world items used to make up each scene. I removed one star because I don’t love that some of the landscapes aren’t realistic (orange jungle, green beach, pink swamp).

[Leslie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Used this in Toddler Storytime, which worked okay. A lovely book that I think would work best in a small group or 1-1.

[Marti (Letstalkaboutbooksbaybee) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love the bright pictures and how they’re made out of unusual things like thumbprints. Working on teaching my toddler his colors and this book is going in the rotation

[Jeremy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read at the Barnes & Noble toddler story time in Silverdale, Washington.

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clever illustrations, and the textured pages are a nice touch.

[David H. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I can't explain what the thought was behind this book in terms of its page design, I find it pretty confusing, let alone my son, but he seems to like it just fine, so there we go.

[Lindsay Lodge · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed the pictures in this book, but I've never seen a green beach. Have you?

[Jenna Montgomery · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super clever illustrations incorporating unexpected items along with textured fingerprints.

[Blakely Pierson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked red, green, and blue.

[Siskiyou-Suzy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I bought this book for my baby; it's fine. It's cute and interesting. I enjoy reading it more than she does I think. I usually have to rush through it because she starts getting fussy.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

TRIPPY.

[Evelyn Slinkard · Rating 1 out of 5]

Evelyn hates this book and refused to look and cried the whole time. Perhaps we’ll try again when she’s older and can appreciate the beautiful art. She was hungry though….

[Cara Byrne · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good premise, but the use of textured fingerprint illustrations and photographs makes for a visually overwhelming presentation of colors.

[Xavier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. I enjoy the colors and the simplistic sentences that allow me to focus on the color being read on every 2-page spread. I find it to be one of the more useful books to use to teach color because the pages are filled with the color spelled out and read on each page. The book covers the primary colors.

[Megababy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the bright colors and rubbing my hands in the textured pictures. I even turned the pages but mommy said it was the wrong time. Also mommy says that an orange jungle, green beach and pink swamp do not make sense. But she really likes that this color book had real sentences instead of just the color word on each page like most color books do.

[Jvermeersch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kleurrijke collages. Vindingrijk gephotoshopt, met vingerafdrukken en dagdagelijkse voorwerpen: aubergines, knopen, ballen, ... - niet in juiste verhoudingen tot elkaar, maar wel verrassend om te ontdekken bij nadere inspectie. En reliëfeffectjes.

[Kristen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will use this one for toddler story time.