 | This Is Orange: A Field Trip Through Color Author: Poliquin, Rachel | |
| Price: $14.24 | ||
Summary:
Ranging through time and circumnavigating the globe, witty stream-of-consciousness text and jaunty illustrations explore color through surprising social, historical, cultural, and artistic lenses. With more than thirty vivid examples and a gentle introduction to color theory, this eye-opening voyage into the heart of orange is a clever appeal to experience other colors—and the world at large—with an open and expansive mind.
Reviews:
Booklist (10/01/25)
The Hornbook (+) (00/11/25)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 10/01/2025 This exploration of the color that Chaucer described as “betwixe yelow and reed” begins with the question of where the word orange even comes from. From there, Poliquin covers a wide range of topics related to the color orange, from the minerals historically used to make orange pigment (now we know they’re poisonous!) to the variety of orange tones used in architecture (the Golden Gate Bridge; Tokyo Tower), art (Christo’s iconic installation, The Gates), cultural dress (saffron robes in Tibet), flags, and so on. Less a systematic overview than an observational jaunt, the text meanders from topic to topic, but Morstad’s lovely, warm watercolor artwork imbues the pages with a lovely sense of atmosphere, depicting close-ups of sunset-hued flowers and animals, people embracing bouquets of marigolds, monarchs fluttering, and astronauts modeling their International Orange–colored spacesuits. While it would have benefited from back matter, this pleasantly rambly book nevertheless encourages little ones to pay closer attention to the world around them and notice instances of this common color with a fascinating history. - Copyright 2025 Booklist.
