Babar's Book of Color

By Laurent de Brunhoff

Book Overview

This Babar classic is a fresh and fun introduction to exploring the world of color.

A visit to Babar's art studio turns into an adventure in colors and their combinations for Pom, Flora, Alexander, and Isabelle. Before they know it, they're painting tan camels, pink flamingoes, blue whales, and of course, gray elephants

Babar was called by the New York Times a "beloved storybook character," was praised by Where the Wild Things Are creator Maurice Sendak as "at the very heart of my conception of what turns a picture book into a work of art," was featured in USA TODAY, which said, "Few series have had such enduring appeal to young readers," and cited in The New Yorker, which wrote, "There are a few parents who haven't tried the Babar books, and the rare small child who doesn't like, or even love them."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419703390
• ISBN13: 9781419703393
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.6"
• Age Range: 5 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Fun even for "non-Babar" fans!

Even if you're not a Babar fan, you should seriously consider this over-sized book filled with vibrant illustrations. It's a fun introduction on how mixing two or more colors can create a whole new color. And yes (as the other reviewer correctly points out) some of the suggested mixing formulas aren't likely to produce the same outcome as the book would suggest, but hey, this is Babar's Book of Color afterall... not Isaac Newton's theory of color.