Book Review: Orange Is an Apricot, Green Is a Tree Frog

Book: Orange Is an Apricot, Green Is a Tree Frog: Explore the natural world through color

Author: Pascale Estellon.

Overview: This book highlights how different colors appear in nature (foods, animals, birds, and plants) with absolutely gorgeous realistic drawings alongside bright circles of color.

Morals or lessons: nature is beautiful!

Age range: listed as 3-6 years on Amazon, and that feels right to me.

Format: picture book.

Visual/reading ease: medium.
The images are the stars here! But some of the words (“autumn”, “Delicious”, “electus”) are certainly for strong readers.

Biggest pro: the beauty.
The pages are so simple, but the illustrations are wonderfully detailed. My preschooler and I had a lot of fun mulling over the shades of green in the asparagus stalk and oooh-ing and ahhhh-ing over the striking “White looks like:” page.

Biggest con: cost.
This is a very simple book to pay $18.95, but I want to highlight two things: like a coffee table book, you’re mostly paying for the beautiful illustrations, and you can always get it from your local library!

Fun factor: fun’s not the main descriptor I’d use.
But if you’re into colors, it’s definitely got that going for it!

How much heart: so much beauty!!
The illustrations are just so much better than so many of the picture books we are reading right now. They invite you in, in a way that suits a book about colors so well. I love this.

Re-readability: high.
We’ve done so many things with this book – I read everything, my preschooler names everything, we count the items, we look for shapes, we talk about the most delicious or prettiest or loudest item on each page…rereads are very easy.

Do you have a picture book with gorgeous illustrations? I’m on a pretty book kick, so I want to know! Comment below!