Couleurs

by Mélanie Watt

Chaque livre de cette collection invite les tout-petits ? rendre visite ? des animaux de diff?rents groupes. Ainsi, les jeunes apprendront les couleurs avec les animaux des tropiques, les chiffres avec ceux de la ferme et les contraires avec ceux des deux p?les. Les animaux de l'oc?an les guideront ? travers le monde des formes alors que des animaux sauvages se chargeront de leur montrer les lettres de l'alphabet.

32 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2003

About the author

It was in a design class taught by Michèle Lemieux at the University of Quebec in Montreal that author and illustrator Mélanie Watt created her first picture book, Leon the Chameleon, which was later published by Kids Can Press. Watt went on to create several more books, including the Learning with Animals collection and Augustine, which was named an ALA Notable Children's Book. Watt has also illustrated Where Does a Tiger-Heron Spend the Night? and Bearcub and Mama, which won the 2006 IRA Teachers' Choices Project.

Mélanie's best known book Scaredy Squirrel, has won many awards including the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award for Children's Picture Book and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award. The release of Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend, was met with enthusiastic reviews and incredible sales, confirming the arrival of kid lit's newest superstar.

Chester,Chester's Back! and Chester's Masterpiece are about a megalomaniac cat who is every bit the antithesis to Scaredy. Chester has already become a bestseller and shows the breadth and creativity of Mélanie Watt.

Scaredy returns to take a few more tentative steps out of his comfort zone in Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach and Scaredy Squirrel at Night. Mélanie has often noted how the Scaredy Squirrel books helped her work out her own insecurities and fears, as the success of these titles has required her to venture out into the unknown, and like Scaredy she has found the experience truly uplifting.

Mélanie currently resides near Montreal, Quebec.

~From http://www.kidscanpress.com/creators/...

Reviews

[Jessalyn Plant · Rating 3 out of 5]

Of the many books on colors that we have read together, I think this book might do the best at actually communicating the color versus the item that is colored.

[Lisa Vegan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Watt’s Chester and Scaredy Squrrel books and I saw that she also has an educational series for very young children. This is the first one I came across. As befitting a book about colors, the illustrations are colorful and beautiful. There’s no story at all here. Each color is mentioned with an animal that’s that color. Red, orange, yellow, green blue, purple, white, black, and multi-colored are covered. It’s a board book. Any child who knows their colors really well might be bored, even though it’s a pretty book. This is a good choice for 1 to 3 year olds, kids who are just learning their colors or those who know them but are still at the stage where they’re proud that they know them. They will get a bit of knowledge about animals who live in the topics too.

[Robin Raines-Bond · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vivid tropical animals will help your child learn colors.

[Alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fans of Chester, Scardy Squirrel know you have to start somewhere. These board books is where Melanie Started! They are colorful and educational board books with great pictures!

[Kathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bright colored pictures of tropical animals.