The Black Book of Colors

Plan to use this awesome book to increase my students' awareness of blindness. This book shares a blind person's interpretations of colors and what they mean to him. Text is in both print and braille form. Pictures are raised so a blind child can feel the shape of the pictures and sighted children can feel what this would be like for a blind child. My description is not doing this book justice. I LOVE IT!

This book provides a different experience of reading. I think every family and every classroom should have this. It such a kinesthetic and imaginative experience that is unlike any other. It is not cheesy, but it is a sweet book. It is short and without many words, but I would say it is for all readers because of the experience it provides. I first learned about this from a Montessori reading conference I went to and decided that it was so cool!

It is written in both words and in Braille; and the illustrations are embossed for the blind to feel the pictures. I used it as a teaching tool for kids who can see; and it was wonderful to see the lights coming on in their minds as to what it might be like to be blind. It also has the entire Braille alphabet. I paired this book with the book, "Six Dots: A Story of Louis Braille." Both are excellent!

This book is wonderful! However the Braille and embossed images are not very tactile. They could be raised more. Otherwise a great experience for the seeing child to put them in the place of others.

This is truly a beautiful book that can be appreciated by both adults and children. I am a Prekindergarten teacher and one of our units focuses solely on books. One of the things we introduce the children to is braille. Earlier this week I gave them a brief history of Louis Braille and introduced them to Hellen Keller. I brought this book in today to share with them as well as other staff members. It has quickly become a center favourite. The embossed images and braille along with the sensory descriptions of colours allow sighted people to begin to explore the world from the point of view of someone with blindness. An all around wonderful book.

A very interesting rendition of a tactile book. Also done in braille ,with tactile graphics. The pictures are not very high contrast texture wise, and the braille is kind of flat level not crisp.

This book should be in every library--particularly children's libraries. It allows a sighted child to enter the world of the blind since the tactile pictures are all in black. There is the opportunity to feel the braille words and to see an explanation in words of what colors seem like when one cannot really see colors. Very imaginative concept and a lovely book.

Braille is slightly hard to read because of the paper. It was interesting to see if the blind individual could figure out the raised picture. Definitely harder for individuals who were blind from birth to figure out the pictures.

Neat and clean. I liked the concept. But felt it was a bit overhyped, especially for those with normal eyesight. Could have been more flamboyantly described.

My blind student loved this book. My student is in a grade four five class. The teacher read this book to the whole class and they were so inspired by it that they are now making a class book for my student to enjoy as an art project. This is a very beautiful educational book.

目の見えない男の子の語りです。 真っ黒の絵本に驚かれるかもしれませんが とても優しい目線で、時々クスッとなるような文体です。

The book is nicely designed. Black is always captivating, the only question is the target audience. This is not a book for visually impaired people, because the book has smaller embossment then necessary for the blind and visually impair people. Lovely design for people that see. The book itself is a nice design object, but for people who see. The visual impaired and blind people have nothing from the beautiful design. Hope to see more from the same author in this direction. Otherwise, lovely book.

Precioso libro. Aunque podría mejorar si el braille tuviera los puntos más marcados.