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There are countless books designed to teach little ones about color, but few are as creative and charming as this one from the Little Discoveries book series. In Colors, there are flaps to be lifted and tabs to be pulled, each geared toward teaching something about a particular color or its properties.
The book begins with a palette that can be opened to highlight different objects that tend to be a particular color. Another tab alongside a pencil drawing can be pulled to reveal how it will look once the art project is complete.
Cans of paint can be unfolded to illustrate the color that will be created when the two are mixed, and a rotating wheel can be spun to match the colors with other common objects that tend to be a particular color. On another page, the tab resembling a window can be pulled to transform an illustration with light colors for day to an illustration with dark colors for night.
Colors is just one of the four interactive lift-the-flap/pull-the-tab books published by Abbeville Kids’ Little Discoveries. Common elements (relevant topics, basic and more advanced text, simple illustrations and opportunities for interaction) make each book appealing. Colors, however, is my favorite from the group since it uses a number of illustrative teaching tools which I have never come across before.
Among some of the techniques noted above, for example, I simply have never pulled a tab in a book that changes the eyes of a sweetly illustrated character as a way to teach little ones about colors but also about the context within which it might be relevant.
Colors should become a part of every child’s book collection, and once the presented concepts are mastered, the other books in the series can be added to provide additional sources of educational materials that readers will thoroughly enjoy.
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Colors (Little Discoveries)