Alexander Girard Color
PreS-Most of the images in this square board book are from Girard's textiles and designs while a few include photographs of wooden toys and a shot from a painting. While certainly colorful and attractive, the artwork is displayed in a seemingly random order. The result is a series of examples of Girard's work rather than a continuous narrative. The rhyming text, taking many grammatical liberties, focuses on identifying some colors and objects from each picture: "red, green, and/blue stripes,/orange stripes/and more;/a few/black/birds;/i think/there/are/four?" In light of the many available color-oriented board books available, this one can be skipped.-Laura Butler, Mount Laurel Library, NJα(c) Copyright 2011.  Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc.  No redistribution permitted.--This text refers to theBoard bookedition.