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Love this story and illustrations! :)
The illustrations are soo lovely! But the words are slow and uninteresting.
Rhythmic and lilting text, and incredible illustrations I could just keep staring at and soaking in. Stunning. Wow.
A curious young child living in a house in the country with his family - dad and pregnant mom - explores the four seasons through the prism of color. It begins in the spring and each season is celebrated with a wordless two page illustration followed by four two-page spreads. The text is written in a gentle, lyrical rhyme, with three line on each spread. The illustrations are done with watercolor, gouache, and color pencils in a folk art style that just compliments the text so well. Sala has inc...
Simply beautiful and almost retro illustrations with a poetic feel to the text that takes the reader through a year using a child and his family and friends and the world around them, focusing tightly on the things he experiences through color and texture and the baby to come.Warm and loving and a brilliant way to talk about colors.
Travel through the year and experience all the colors of each season on these pages. Poetic rhymes describe the joy of each season and how each season still has a connection to the color green.Starting with Spring and all the joys including the flowers, the bees, the birds, and the rain children can see all the things to celebrate each and every season. Summer is full of beaches and picnics and reading books in the sun. Fall focuses on the foods and scents of the season including cinnamon, pumpk...
Beautiful. The perfect marriage of words and art to convey the beauty of changing seasons with the stability of family and home.
Felicita Sala's illustrations are gorgeous, and the simple rhyming of the story would make a sweet read-aloud. I was disappointed, though, because the characters in this scenic, colorful, season-centered book are obviously celebrating Thanksgiving in the fall (with turkey on the table) and Christmas (with a decorated tree) in the winter. These dominant-cultural holidays are already heavily-featured in children's literature -- in particular, uncomplicated representations of Thanksgiving uphold co...
A dreamy exploration of color and nature, sustained in brilliant pictures and gentle rhyme, that flows through the seasons and works it way all the way back to where the story began."Blue the coral.Blue the shell.Blue and white the foaming swell."Mesmerizing.
Beautiful illustrations of all four seasons and a family’s lives during each one. The text is simple and poetic and fits the illustrations and the story perfectly. A beautiful book!
Wonderfully warm book with big, colorful illustrations. Not so much a story, but more of a beautiful narration of the color changes nature undergoes through all four seasons. A great book to read along with a little one, as the illustrator packs a lot into each page. A book a child will read and re-read and discover something new each time. With easy reading and rhyming text, this book took me back to my own childhood.
Just lovely. Gorgeous illustrations.
This book has gorgeous illustrations. I think that this would be a great book to introduce kids to poetry since it is written in verse and to teach them about colors and seasons!
More than a story/poem about the color green and seasons, the real story is in the illustrations. (view spoiler)[The illustrations show the story of a family who is expecting a baby and the changes in Mom throighout the seasons. (hide spoiler)]
American author Dianne White joins forces with Australian/Italian illustrator Felicita Sala in this lovely picture-book examination of colors, the seasons, and the life of a family where a new baby is expected. As the poetic text describes the colors of each of the four seasons, the artwork expands upon the story, depicting a young boy and his family and friends throughout the year. It soon becomes apparent that the boy's mother is pregnant, and the artwork follows this development, until the ha...
An instant favorite. Beautiful text and illustrations. This book celebrates the best of each season in a quiet, every-day sort of way.
What a beautiful book! Loved it!
Um, hello....gorgeous! These evocative illustrations take you through each of the seasons. The text reads more like a poem, with recurring motifs of the colors of each season (yellow and green for summer, brown and green for fall, etc). I like the deliberate pauses to illustrate the changing of the seasons. A bit too artistic for a storytime book for younger children, but lovely for one-on-one reads.
'Green on Green' by Dianne White, illustrated by Felicita Sala, is just the right book to experience the seasons all at once. White's gentle verses guide little eyes across the pages looking for pines, corals and mice. As the seasons change, mum's belly seems to swell bigger and bigger until one winter's night new life emerges, hailing the sweetest of greens on green.A lovely read that brought me back to the first page just after having finished it.
A poem for the four seasons, GREEN ON GREEN is brief and lovely. I wonder a bit about whether smaller children will follow the more abstract, poetic language but I have no doubt that kids of all ages will get sucked into the details of the illustrations. Starting with the endpapers, the illustrations perfectly capture the seasons. If you look closely you will also notice that they add their own layer of story as the family depicted changes throughout the book. A beautiful celebration of what mak...
