A Rainbow All Around Me

by Sandra L. Pinkney, Myles C. Pinkney (Photographer)

A thoughtful look at colors, this photo essay is Myles and Sandra Pinkney's follow-up to their debut title, SHADES OF BLACK, winner of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Children's Literary Work.

Red
Hot
Full of love
Cinnamony sweet
A Happy Valentine

Purple
Wild
Crazy
Nutritious and delicious
Jammin' on a slice of bread

Genres: Picture Books, Nonfiction, Childrens, Storytime

40 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Celia Buell · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one is pretty simple. Each color has a page with a few words of feelings that that color invokes. It's a good way for beginning readers to think about color connections to feelings and in the world in general.

My kids this year love everything rainbow, so I think they'll enjoy this one.

[Mackenzie Keffer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I absolutely loved the Pinkeys' book, Shades of Black. It really gives children an understanding of the varying physical characteristics among Blacks, lends a positive vocabulary, and gives children someone to identify with. This spin-off just recycles the ideas of Everybody's Beautiful and The World is a Rainbow. There is a poster child for each ethnicity and an association with a color. The children are pictured wearing their color... not by stereotype.

[Sean Harding · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pinkney Knees #1
A book basically showing different colours, through having photos of kids in different colours and sometimes doing things colour related, like eating an orange, though that was not the case for the brown one....
Anyway pretty lazy effort, and there are other ways which could introduce colours but to was ok I guess.

[LaShonda Lewis · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a picture book of the wonderful word of the celebration of Latin children, in all of their various of shades, cultures, and customs. This Poetic and affirmative text accompanies so much in this bright and striking photograph of children and their uses of their five senses to lead the reader on an exploration of Latino foods, music, language and other Latin cultures.

[Tabitha Vanover · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought the book was very colorful. Showing the different colors that are all around us. You can use this book to teach children about colors and they will be able to go home and point colors out around their house .

[Cara Bornemiss · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a great way to show how diverse the world is. It shows the many different colors that we have in the world today. This book can be good for children to read if they feel like they don't feel like they fit in.

[Gina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lush exploration of colors.

[Tristan Doane · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this book when children are being taught to identify different colors and it is a brilliant thing for them to see what objects have those colors if that makes any sense.

[Julia · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Colors are you, colors are me" is a phrase that is mentioned often in Sandra and Myles Pinkney's, A Rainbow All Around Me. Photographs of children representing a wide range of colors are used to represent different cultures. The color green is shown with a young girl with dark skin and beautiful smile. Green is fresh, like apples and grass. Pink is bubble gum fun. A freckle faced girl blowing bubbles. Orange is a boy with dark eyes and big smile eating oranges that burst with flavor. The easy text make this book perfect for preschool children but it can also be used with older children to spark discussions about diversity.

[Kathryn Brunk · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book describes the colors in a rainbow and the content would be science. I think this book would go great when we are discussing weather and rainbows. I really like that there are photographs throughout the book of children wearing the colors of the rainbow. I think this can lead to the children in the classroom identifying one another as wearing the colors of the rainbow. An activity that I would like to do would be to find kids wearing the colors of the rainbow and putting them in the order of the rainbow.

[Dianne J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Age of readership: Ages 2 – 5

Genre: Picture Book

Diversity: Multiculturalism

Illustrations: Clear, crisp color photographs

My response to the book: The author shows melding of colors and cultures that create a rainbow of experiences and peoples in our world.

Curricular/Programming connections: Use for a preschool unit on different cultures.

[Emily Bernd · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was not a big fan of this book, I thought some of the connections between the color and picture was confusing. I think it is important when teaching colors that the books be very clear and have the very basic and clear explanations.

[Jackie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Colors of the rainbow are tied to colors of humanity, as A Rainbow All Around Me celebrates the cultural differences in all of us.

Used for "Rainbows" storytime: July, 2011.

[Candace Kaelin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this book. I think the author is very creative at teaching culture with colors.

[Hollee Young · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story to help students struggling with color recognition.

[Little Champs]

Color 3

[Lyndsay M · Rating 3 out of 5]

Grades: k-1