The Black Book of Colors

By Menena Cottin, Rosana Faria (illustrator),

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Living with the use of one's eyes can make imagining blindness difficult, but this innovative title invites readers to imagine living without sight through remarkable illustrations done with raised lines and descriptions of colors based on imagery. Braille letters accompany the illustrations and a full Braille alphabet offers sighted readersā€¦

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1 author picked The Black Book of Colors as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This award-winning book, first published in Mexico, is completely black, yet so colorful in its words and images.

The words describe colors with artful description, such as, ā€œā€¦green tastes like lemon ice cream and smells like grass thatā€™s just been cut.ā€ To fully engage the senses, the words are printed in Braille, and the images are raised, so they can be touched and ā€œreadā€ as well. 

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