Sidman, Joyce, Joyce Sidman, and Pamela Zagarenski. Red
Sings From Treetops: A Year in Colors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for
Children, 2009. ISBN: 0547014945.
Annotation
A collection of poems describing different seasons with colors, sounds
and smells.
My thoughts
This book is the winner of the 2010 Caldecott Award. This book is an interesting twist for a concept book. It combines a collection of poems with seasons and colors to produce a visual stunner.
The short pieces of poetry are great attention getters and would be great for a class lesson on how to write poetry and would be good for a read aloud setting. It would also be good for children learning the seasons and colors.
This book is the winner of the 2010 Caldecott Award. This book is an interesting twist for a concept book. It combines a collection of poems with seasons and colors to produce a visual stunner.
The short pieces of poetry are great attention getters and would be great for a class lesson on how to write poetry and would be good for a read aloud setting. It would also be good for children learning the seasons and colors.
Focus on Artwork
Pamela Zagarenski's illustrations really add to the text. They really show and explain the text very well and are painted in bright vibrant colors. The entire book is beautifully illustrated with complicated layers, textures, and intense color combinations with a color palette that is based in earth tones and subtly changes to convey each season. This book teaches children about color and really does a great job at that through using the varying hues and also by including the written word typed in the given color throughout the book. In addition, Zagarenski creatively uses type. The lettering is seen both vertical and horizontal.
Curricular
connections
Grade 4- Middle School
Elementary School: color poems
English/Humanities: Creative Writing: students can write their own color
poems
Art: colors and nature
Literary
devices
Use of
Rhyme
“Green trills from trees, clings to Pup’s knees, covers all with leaves,
leave, leaves!”
Use of simile
“…each note dropping like a cherry
into my ear.”
Quotes
And White?/White/Whispers,/Floats,/Clumps,/Traces its wet finger/on
branches and stumps./White dazzles day/and turns night/inside out.
Where is Green in winter?/Green darkens, shrinks,/stiffens into
needles./Green waits in the hearts of trees,/feeling/the earth/turn.
Reading level/ Interest Age
Grades 1-4;
Ages 6 – 9
Reviews and Awards
2010 Caldecott
Honor Book
2010 winner of
the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award
Booklist, 2009.
Horn Book, 2009. School Library Journal, 2009.
Winner of the
Cybils Award
A Lee Bennett
Hopkins Honor Book
A School
Library Journal Best Book
New York Public
Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
Author
website: www.joycesidman.com
Illustrator
website: www.atthegallery.com/artists/zagarenski.html
Media: Mixed media paintings on wood and computer
illustration
Genre: Poetry, juvenile picture book
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