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Bauer, Jutta

The Queen of Colors

64 pp. | North-South | April, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7358-4166-6 $14.95
(4) K-3 When Queen Matilda summons individual colors, she can handle them. But collectively, "gentle" Blue, "bad mannered" Yellow, and "wild" Red create a disharmonious gray that brings her to tears. It's all pretty overwrought, but there's artistic ingenuity in the wordless, color-splattered latter pages. The final black-and-white image bears the omniscient narrator's unexpected overture, "Here you can do your own coloring."
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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