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Becker, Aaron

My Favorite Color: I Can Only Pick One?

18 pp. | Candlewick Studio | September, 2020 | Trade ISBN 978-1-5362-1474-1 $15.99
(2) PS Becker's follow-up to his concept board book You Are Light (rev. 9/19) has a similar format--large, thick, square pages, some with sturdy translucent inset colored panes that, when held up to light, transform the pages' appearance. This time the concept is shades and hues of color, with an offstage first-person narrator beginning the spare text, "My favorite color is yellow." We see twenty-five squares of yellow, arranged in five-by-five rows, each square a different hue and some so light-colored that they're difficult to see against the page's white background. Favorite colors can be changeable, though, and on the next spread, after extolling the virtues of yellow ("Yellow, like the sun in a clear blue sky"), and with an accompanying illustration showing squares of both yellow and various sky blues, our narrator switches allegiances: "Actually, I think blue is my favorite." The pattern continues along the color wheel, with each picture displaying a remarkable range of hues; it's like looking at paint samples or a Pantone guide (in a good way), with the frequent panes adding even more depth and dimension. Most pages have white backgrounds; the purple spread pops against a nighttime-ish black. By the end, there are various shades from different color families on the same pages ("And the dew-dappled colors of sweet, ripe fruits"), and eventually the narrator admits defeat: "I can only have one favorite color? Hmm...Impossible!" Equally impossible, for many viewers, will be picking a "favorite" in this eye-catching and mind-expanding color concept book.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2020

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