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.
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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