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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text highlight the animals, fruits, feelings, and colors that characterize each season of the year. No library descriptions found. |
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I found Green on Green immensely appealing, from both a narrative and aesthetic perspective, and thought that with White's poetic text in rhyme and Sala's gorgeous artwork, it would make a wonderful read-aloud selection. I enjoyed the exploration of color and season in the natural world, and how this was paralleled by/paired with the entirely visual narrative about the mother's pregnancy. I also appreciated the diversity of characters here, and that this beautiful brown-skinned family is depicted as having friends of all kinds. In short: a lovely book, one I am glad to have picked up. It addresses a fairly common theme in picture-books - the arrival of a new sibling - in a unique and creative way. Recommended to picture-book readers looking for stories about the seasons, about colors, and most of all, about new arrivals in the family circle. ( )