Original language: English and Braille
Publication Date: 2006
Rating: Essential
The amount of awards that has taken this small book, including 2007 New Horizons Award at the prestigious book fair in Bologna Italy, indicates that this is a special object, a value recognized throughout the world.
With unparalleled beauty, The black book of colors puts us in the imagery of blindness for tactile examples explain how to define the different colors. So, Tom, the child protagonist, recognizes that "tastes like mustard yellow, but is soft like the feathers of a chicken." In this spread, which like the entire album is completely black, we found the one hand, the text printed in white and corresponding Braille, and the other to the right, the highlight of a rain of "chicken feathers." The white text in the glistening of the reliefs allow sighted readers who do not know braille can enjoy all the pages without a problem, though obviously this book is directed primarily to children who can not see.
All colors are represented (red, brown, blue, white, green, black ...) are assigned a tactile image clear and connected with nature, thus giving the whole album a fresh, pleasant and reassuring. Amazing crossing feelings for someone, like myself, who "sees" and is facing this mental exercise through a dozen pages all black, really allowing you to go through the world of darkness for the blind, which, however, gets its satisfaction that the rain can be known, for example, without seeing her.
The book ends with an alphabet in braille, a practical element to any reader who wants to take home the bases of this complex language. The publisher, Libros del Zorro Rojo, known for its amazing and beautiful children performing editions, has built an editorial piece of jewelry, priceless, worthy to be present in any library not only for the safe use it has but by the quality of this book as art object. Touch it, smell it, feel it as a whole that can open and close and cherish a habit becomes magical, delicate journey of the senses beyond what we are accustomed.
The amount of awards that has taken this small book, including 2007 New Horizons Award at the prestigious book fair in Bologna Italy, indicates that this is a special object, a value recognized throughout the world.
With unparalleled beauty, The black book of colors puts us in the imagery of blindness for tactile examples explain how to define the different colors. So, Tom, the child protagonist, recognizes that "tastes like mustard yellow, but is soft like the feathers of a chicken." In this spread, which like the entire album is completely black, we found the one hand, the text printed in white and corresponding Braille, and the other to the right, the highlight of a rain of "chicken feathers." The white text in the glistening of the reliefs allow sighted readers who do not know braille can enjoy all the pages without a problem, though obviously this book is directed primarily to children who can not see.
All colors are represented (red, brown, blue, white, green, black ...) are assigned a tactile image clear and connected with nature, thus giving the whole album a fresh, pleasant and reassuring. Amazing crossing feelings for someone, like myself, who "sees" and is facing this mental exercise through a dozen pages all black, really allowing you to go through the world of darkness for the blind, which, however, gets its satisfaction that the rain can be known, for example, without seeing her.
The book ends with an alphabet in braille, a practical element to any reader who wants to take home the bases of this complex language. The publisher, Libros del Zorro Rojo, known for its amazing and beautiful children performing editions, has built an editorial piece of jewelry, priceless, worthy to be present in any library not only for the safe use it has but by the quality of this book as art object. Touch it, smell it, feel it as a whole that can open and close and cherish a habit becomes magical, delicate journey of the senses beyond what we are accustomed.
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