"mud red
rust red
blood red"
Previously, Laura Vaccaro Singer has explored the colors Green (2012) and Blue (2018). Both are spectacular concept books for young children. Now, she turns her attention to autumnal red.
As she has done in the first two books, she uses simple, two-word, descriptive language to describe distinct shades of red. The text is supported by a story of a fox family, and the young kit who falls behind. After a night in the dark red of being alone at night, the kit is warmed by the light red of sunrise. It is then the kit comes to the realization that it is lost red.
As it wanders about, it is caught in the headlights of a blue truck, intrigued by the rose red of flowers near a yard where a child is playing, curious about a wheelbarrow filled with mud red dirt, hurt by rust red nails which results in blood red. Its travels move it forward past other scenarios that eventually lead it back to its family.
I love the visual storytelling, the connections from color one book to the next, the emotions evoked, and the absolute beauty of this book.
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