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  • What's Your Favorite Color by Eric Carle
  • Deborah Stevenson
Carle, Eric What's Your Favorite Color; written and illus. by Eric Carle, Lauren Castillo, Bryan Collier et al. Godwin/Holt, 2017 34p
Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-8050-9614-9 $17.99
E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-250-16433-9 $9.99         R 4-6 yrs

Eric Carle and fourteen other illustrators take turns celebrating their favorite color in text and art. Eric Carle begins with his advocacy for yellow and sets the tone for what's sometimes an interesting consideration of how colors work for artists: he likes the challenge that yellow presents since it's easily spoiled by mixing with other colors. The results offer up a rainbow and then some as Bryan Collier champions blue, for the blue balloons he buys his daughter; Anna Dewdney recounts that she's loved purple ever since she was a little girl with a purple polyester pants suit; Yuyi Morales sings the praises of "Mexican Pink, the color of bougainvillea flowers I used to cut on my way to visit my grandmother," and so on. Though some entries are on the wispy side, the theme is clear enough to connect the disparate spreads, and the best offerings range from thought provoking to lyrical; many kids will especially cheer Uri Shulevitz's refusal to pick favorites because "a single color may feel lonely." Art ranges from Melissa Sweet's delicate mixed media celebrating foggy gray to Lauren Castillo's textured sweeps of saturated pigment in a snowy white landscape to William Low's realistic warm brown rowhouses. There's potential here for curricular use as this expands the "what's your favorite color" prompt [End Page 402] to something more creative, and audiences will love to chime in with their own choices. End matter provides bios of the contributors with snapshots of themselves as children.

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