![]() ![]() I read this to a two-and-a-half-year-old and watched as her confusion became conceptualization before my eyes. As the text guides them through it, they begin to conceptualize. That means readers are jumping back and forth between real and imaginary. ![]() However, the effects of those touches and manipulations aren’t real, like many board books they are illustrated. It’s a self-aware book that breaks the fourth wall and asks readers to manipulate and touch it. This makes for a uniquely immersive experience among literature for very young children. Large splotches of paint merge together when the book is closed, or shaken, or a finger is rubbed across it. After a child has learned to identify colors, where do you go next? Making colors! If your goal is to teach the very young about how secondary colors are made, and how to use their imagination to interact with the printed page, you cannot skip this book! Vibrant colors and hands-on prompts not only bring young readers right into the action, the text subtly cues them to imagine what might come next and then to act it out using the very book in their hands. ![]()
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