Monday, March 23, 2009

The Black Book of colors by Menena Cottin

This book is a remarkable picture book in which the author ask us to imagine being blind. The illustrations of this book appear on the right-hand pages and consist of black-on-black embossed graphics. The raised texture of leaves,feathers and raindrops usher us into a world without color. On the left-hand pages spare lines of text are printed in flat white type against a solid black background beneath a Braille translation. Readers who turn to the last page can teach themselves the Braille alphabet, then go back and read the text by touch.

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