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Something Beginning with Blue
Book by Symes, Sally
32 pages, Hardcover
First published September 6, 2010
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Sally Symes
47 books8 followersSally Symes has designed, written, and illustrated many books with numerous talented partners. She lives in England with her husband, two children, and Bumble the cat.
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September 30, 2019
The most appealing part of this book is undoubtedly the illustrations by Nick Sharratt, which really gives it something special. Perfect for slightly older children, as they will be able to guess what things might be being described, but was just a little bit too complex for our little one.
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January 27, 2022Nursery -explore colour mixing - useful for learning names of colours
September 24, 2012
Lesley for Big Book Little Book
This book came home to us, along with two or three others, from preschool in a little cloth bag to encourage reading at home. Thankfully, we don’t need too much encouragement around here and we plunged right in!
This particular one has turned out to be a favourite. It’s based on ‘I spy’ which I’ve already played in the car on a bazillion occasions with my older two, often turning out to be highly annoying as my eldest son would always think of the abstract and come up with things like ‘smudge’ ‘look! It’s right there on the window, can’t you see?’ Humph.
Well, now I get to start again with my younger two, using the far simpler method of colours, which is already a game we play in the car. The book is great fun and uses the game’s phrase ‘I spy with my little eye, something beginning with…’ then has a colour. There is a nice little rhyme to help you guess and you can look through the peep holes which are the eyes of each figure to see the colour then turn the page and find out what it is.
Josh has pretty much learnt the text off by heart and shouts out the answer before we turn the page, and Samuel is enjoying learning his colours and various animals and other things and loves the ‘surprise’ when we turn the page.
The illustrations are bright and colourful and appealing to toddlers and the simple rhyming text is great for Josh who ‘wants to read all by myself’ quite a bit these days.
A lovely book, fun and appealing.
This book came home to us, along with two or three others, from preschool in a little cloth bag to encourage reading at home. Thankfully, we don’t need too much encouragement around here and we plunged right in!
This particular one has turned out to be a favourite. It’s based on ‘I spy’ which I’ve already played in the car on a bazillion occasions with my older two, often turning out to be highly annoying as my eldest son would always think of the abstract and come up with things like ‘smudge’ ‘look! It’s right there on the window, can’t you see?’ Humph.
Well, now I get to start again with my younger two, using the far simpler method of colours, which is already a game we play in the car. The book is great fun and uses the game’s phrase ‘I spy with my little eye, something beginning with…’ then has a colour. There is a nice little rhyme to help you guess and you can look through the peep holes which are the eyes of each figure to see the colour then turn the page and find out what it is.
Josh has pretty much learnt the text off by heart and shouts out the answer before we turn the page, and Samuel is enjoying learning his colours and various animals and other things and loves the ‘surprise’ when we turn the page.
The illustrations are bright and colourful and appealing to toddlers and the simple rhyming text is great for Josh who ‘wants to read all by myself’ quite a bit these days.
A lovely book, fun and appealing.
June 26, 2012
My 4 year old daughter loves this book
January 1, 2013
My three-year-old loved it, and I loved to hear her read it to herself.
May 17, 2013
I use this book all the time for bilingual storytime.
It is great to review the colors in Spanish.
The text is simple enough and the kids are able to help with guessing what the creature is.
It is great to review the colors in Spanish.
The text is simple enough and the kids are able to help with guessing what the creature is.
May 29, 2013
Great Spanish picture book! Now we play this game when we're driving, "Veo Veo una cosa __________"
May 11, 2016
We read this along with a few others illustrated by Nick Sharratt for Babes'n'Books. Yet again the eyes made for something different.
V @ 5 months old
V @ 5 months old
March 29, 2017
Good for colours and phonics and the rhymes are fun too
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