I thought that this was just a wonderful little book. I loved the illustrations that were displayed to correspond with each color that was described. I also loved the way the author compared and described each color to a certain object or time of day. Each color poem was beautiful. The illustrations were beautiful. Overall, I'll definitely be using this book later for in my classroom.

This is a beautiful literary illustration of colors. I would recommend this for any classroom or home, or even for someone who wants a fun read. I would love to read this to kindergartners and do a color unit with them. So many potentials for fun extension activities!

The most classic of all classic poetry books. Great to possibly pair nowadays with "The Black Book of Colors." This is one of those poetry books that redefines poetry in school. So many of the great poetry books did that for this genre…Shel Silverstein, Judith Viorst, Jack Prelutsky, and, of course, Dr. Seuss.

This one is so old, I'm afraid that too many people don't even know about it. So, that is why I decided to post on it. Her idea to bring the abstract world of colors into the more concrete, tangible world of descriptive poetry is fascinating for children and the perfect subject for beginning poets! O' Neill was a consultant to W.B. Yeats- can't get much more "real" in terms of a poet than that.

had this book when i was a kid--poems about colors

I love this book. I remember in my 9th grade English teacher using it during a poetry unit and then we wrote color poems. It is a fun way to have students work with simile and metaphor in connection to color.

I purchased this for the light and colors unit I developed long ago. The poems are interesting. I seem to have a love/hate (or at least a like/dislike) relationship with them. I don't think the poetry is great. I do think, however, that the poems lend themselves to deep thinking. Many colors are written about. Each is titled "What is Red?", "What is Yellow?", etc. Then the poet explains the colors for two to three pages. Green is April. White is like hailstones and halibut bones.

This is reminiscent to the activity we used to do with the Shoestring Players. I like these activities. Children need to be encouraged to describe their world and to be able to do it from different perspectives. To that end, these poems are a good vehicle to investigate.

Lively illustrations and whimsical poems describing colors.

This is a fun book of poetry with every poem describing a different color. "Brown" is my favorite. It is not too juvenile and would make a great poetry unit in late elementary through highschool writing classes.

Great book for teaching poetry. I did an activity to go with some of the poems we read in this book. Students picked their own color and wrote metaphors for it. (EX: White is a cloud in the sky) They really enjoyed it. (I did it with 3rd graders)

Another Leonard Weisgard illustrated book -- I picked this to get from the library out of his illustrated work simply on title alone. The poem by O'Neill definitely has some nice moments; unfortunately it's dated and tells us that Indians are Red and Babies are Pink. But otherwise sweet and even goes beyond the basic iamges that you might expect in many poems about colors for children: "You can smell blue / In many a thing: / Gentian and larkspur / Forget-me-nots, too. / And if you listen / You can hear blue / In wind over water / And wherever flax blooms / And when evening steps into / Lonely rooms. / Cold is blue: / Flame shot from a welding torch / Is, too: / Hot, wild, screaming, blistering Blue"

Lovely, refreshing cute.

Beautifully written! I loved this! (B)