5/30/2023 0 Comments Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger![]() 1/05) was a concept book about color, so you might think this offering on various shades of a single color would be simpler. ![]() Here's hoping subsequent color books from Seeger get the green light. by the author Preschool Porter/Roaring Brook 40 pp. ![]() ![]() There's even room for spreads about the absence of green (a stop sign is "never green"). Throughout, die-cuts of various sizes, shapes, and quantities build surprising connections between adjoining spreads: the words khaki and jungle are hidden within the backgrounds of the other's spread, both made legible by the same rectangular window a "slow green" inchworm becomes the hook on which hangs a "faded green" sign. Seeger paints thickly on a canvas backdrop that lends an appropriately organic feel, given the natural sources for many of the varieties of green. The turning point: "wacky green," paired with a portrait of a green-and-white zebra shown happily munching grass. The gently rhymed verse consists entirely of two-word phrases and begins with a rundown of specific shades ("forest green/ sea green/ lime green/ pea green") before moving into more abstract directions. Seeger's skill at creating simple yet wonderfully effective concept books, as well as her mastery of die-cuts that delight in unexpected and ingenious ways, are in full evidence in this salute to the color green. ![]()
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