Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
Award-winner Wallner has illustrated this full-color edition of O'Neill's classic poetry book. With a compelling sense of rhythm and with images that are clear and fresh, O'Neill explores the spectrum in 12 poems and 12 different colors.
Review Quotes: "An exploration in imaginative, evocative verses of the world of color and its relationship to the other senses."--The New York Times Book Review (A Top Ten Distinguished Juvenile Book)
"Has inspired young poets all over the country."--
Publishers Weekly "John Wallner has added rich drawings for this new edition, full of intense yellows, blues, orchids, and oranges. They complement O'Neill's whimsical poems."--
People "After more than twenty-five years, the poems, like colors, still sing . . . Kudos to Doubleday for letting
Hailstones and Halibut Bones continue to live."--
School Library Journal
"Bright drawings accompany poetry which discussed the colors of the spectrum, encouraging kids to think about how colors are distributed in the natural and human worlds."--
Midwest Book Review
