Blue

Seeger, Laura Vaccaro. Blue. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2018.

I was so excited when I saw that Laura Seeger had a new concept book out. I enjoy sharing Green with my students and was hoping to pair this new title with it. Laura Seeger uses just a couple of words on each page of this picture book – usually a type of blue – and then illustrates that blue. Readers will explore: baby blue, maybe blue, midnight blue, true blue, and others. Seeger created a beautiful acrylic painting for each phrase. Spoiler alert: each page focuses on a boy and his dog (who dies near the end and is replaced with a new one). While I love this book almost as much as her earlier concept book, I can see it causing some tears in my more sensitive students.

I will be including this title in my Mock Caldecott unit this fall. I may even include in my my concept book unit later in the year.

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