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Paschkis, Julie

Vivid: Poems & Notes About Color

32 pp. | Holt/Godwin | July, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-250-12229-2 $17.99

(2) K-3 Fourteen color poems pair with vibrant gouache illustrations; each spread also includes background information about the color. The last poem is, naturally, about a rainbow, depicted as a sequence of images of different-colored foods ("a rainbow picnic") set on squares of their matching colors. An author's note does a good job explaining color theory, differentiating between pigments and the perception of light as color.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2018