The Black Book of Colors

This is truly a beautiful book that can be appreciated by both adults and children. I am a Prekindergarten teacher and one of our units focuses solely on books. One of the things we introduce the children to is braille. Earlier this week I gave them a brief history of Louis Braille and introduced them to Hellen Keller. I brought this book in today to share with them as well as other staff members. It has quickly become a center favourite. The embossed images and braille along with the sensory descriptions of colours allow sighted people to begin to explore the world from the point of view of someone with blindness. An all around wonderful book.

This book is so neat! It is special because it gives you a different way to read and explore the book. I used it in my student teaching class and had the children describe some of the items in the book before I read it, encouraging them not to use sight words. Then, I had them close their eyes as I read some of the pages. Lastly, I let them each feel the page at the back before they went outside to play. They LOVED it! i HIGHLY recommend this book and encourage you to have it in your classroom to promote diversity and a different way of thinking.

This book provides a different experience of reading. I think every family and every classroom should have this. It such a kinesthetic and imaginative experience that is unlike any other. It is not cheesy, but it is a sweet book. It is short and without many words, but I would say it is for all readers because of the experience it provides. I first learned about this from a Montessori reading conference I went to and decided that it was so cool!

Plan to use this awesome book to increase my students' awareness of blindness. This book shares a blind person's interpretations of colors and what they mean to him. Text is in both print and braille form. Pictures are raised so a blind child can feel the shape of the pictures and sighted children can feel what this would be like for a blind child. My description is not doing this book justice. I LOVE IT!

This book is wonderful! However the Braille and embossed images are not very tactile. They could be raised more. Otherwise a great experience for the seeing child to put them in the place of others.

This is a nice book. Good quality! Got it as a gift for my Mom. However, the braille dots are not raised enough so it is very difficult to read.

My grandson loves this book! He has been blind for 5 years, he is now ten. He did say the Braille was a little hard to feel but, he has no problems with it now. I love to see him read the and enjoy him reading it out loud to me..."Yellow is the taste of mustard and the feel of a soft baby chick..." I know my words are not perfect but this book is really great! Thank you!

I wanted to love this, but the raised images and braille writing is NOT raised enough to be read by your fingers alone. It gets the point across to kids about how the blind cannot see colors and have to feel things, but it would have been far more effective IF the pictures you were touching had a distinct different feel or pattern that you could easily distinguish by your fingers. But the images are just normal illustrations of objects that are just printed in a raised form. Ultimately every images feels like a bumpy blob, so with your eyes shut and only using your hands, you cannot identify any specific object. I suggest pairing this book with real feathers, leaves, etc. so they can actually feel the colors in real life. Kids could be blindfolded while doing it. Because you can use the book in that way, I give it 3 stars, but the book alone is only 2 stars. Great concept - bad execution - but still usable.

Neat and clean. I liked the concept. But felt it was a bit overhyped, especially for those with normal eyesight. Could have been more flamboyantly described.

My blind student loved this book. My student is in a grade four five class. The teacher read this book to the whole class and they were so inspired by it that they are now making a class book for my student to enjoy as an art project. This is a very beautiful educational book.

目の見えない男の子の語りです。 真っ黒の絵本に驚かれるかもしれませんが とても優しい目線で、時々クスッとなるような文体です。

The book is nicely designed. Black is always captivating, the only question is the target audience. This is not a book for visually impaired people, because the book has smaller embossment then necessary for the blind and visually impair people. Lovely design for people that see. The book itself is a nice design object, but for people who see. The visual impaired and blind people have nothing from the beautiful design. Hope to see more from the same author in this direction. Otherwise, lovely book.

Precioso libro. Aunque podría mejorar si el braille tuviera los puntos más marcados.