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Monday, January 16, 2012

The Sound of Colors

Book Title: The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination


Author & Illustrator: Jimmy Liao

English text adapted by: Sarah L. Thompson


Publisher: Little, Brown and Company


Copyright Date: 2001 (Original); 2006 (US Adapted)


Genre: Picturebook


Brief Annotation: This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of a young girl who has lost her eyesight. She ventures down into the subway system and goes on a journey of the imagination. Her travels take her to the ocean where she swims with dolphins and sunbaths on a whale. She sails through clouds and flies with the birds. As the reader, you’re taken on a journey of the power of imagination.


Your Rating (1-5) and why: 5 – This book is beautiful, imaginative and heartfelt. It will take on a different depth and meaning depending on the age of the child. You can come back to it over and over again at different times and take something new.


Readers who will like this book: This is not an upbeat, silly story. Kids who are able to sit, listen and whose imagination can be engaged will enjoy this story. Also, kids who have experienced some kind of loss may connect with this story.


Teaching Strategy from Yopp & Yopp: Concrete Experiences (p. 44); Students engage in concrete experiences before reading a book; concrete experiences support a students’ understanding of a book by having them engage in objects, concepts or events that are discussed in the text. So before reading The Sound of Colors you could ask the students to close their eyes and imagine that they are blind. Prompt them to imagine/picture (with their eyes closed) where they would choose to go if they could go anywhere. What does it look? What does it feel like?


Question to ask about this book before a read aloud: See above; Also, what do you think colors feel like or sound like?


Interest Level (age): 6-9

Misc: A movie was made based on this book – China, 2003

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