City Colors [Paperback]

Color has the power to inspire and delight. The playful photographs here invite youngsters on an international urban journey with color as their guide --- from London's famous red double-deckers to New York City's shiny black limousines to Rio de Janeiro's multicolored playgrounds. The ten colors featured are each clearly presented in a main photograph and in a smaller focus image.Zoran Milich is an award-winning photojournalist. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.Boldly designed and photographed ... [a] satisfying mix of recognizable scenes and mysterious close-ups.Horn BookPhotojournalist Zoral Milich's previous books for children, The City ABC Book, and City Signs, were masterful, intriguing demonstrations of elementary concepts executed in a minimalist way, and in a way that never undercuts the graphic elegance of the page. These are sophisticated books that give small folk a taste of something quite fine. In his newest book, City Colors, Milich moves from ABC's to red, white, and blue, and beyond. Milich's modus operandi is to use a double-page spread to ?illustrate? a colour. Take the colour red, for instance; One the left-hand page, a small square frames a photograph of a part of something red. The right-hand page shows the whole thing - or enough of it to determine that what we've got is a red double-decker bus speeding down the tarmac. Black - not a colour for some - is presented as a photograph of a square of blackness interrupted by an interesting piece of shiny chrome. A black stretch limonsine slithers across the black asphalt street on the right-hand page. Lots of aha! Moments here dressed up in pink, purple, and yellow, too.Globe & MailMilich complements his powerful The City ABC Book and City Signs with a dazzling new concept book.School Library JournalGood picture books capture children and adults alike, neither too complicated to confuse a child trying to negotiate meaning nor to simple to turn off a pl#K