Horn Book Review
Using the format of a graceful scarf dance, Jonas introduces young readers to the range of colors encompassed in combinations of the three primary colors and the added effect of using white and black. It is a minor distraction that the red lacks the vibrancy of the yellow and blue in this imaginative concept book. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
A novel idea for a book about color: Three small dancers wave diaphanous scarves to demonstrate how colors combine. There are many subtleties here: where the fabric is doubled, color is intensified, producing many shades of red or such variants as chartreuse and aquamarine. A boy joins the girls to add white, gray, and black scarves in turn; the book concludes with a color wheel and the comment that ""Color Dance is a fantasy"": the scenes are easier to paint on paper than perform on stage. It's not even so easy on paper: for instance, the printer's red shown is pinker than the popular idea of true red; the violet is more like blue; and the yellow doubles on itself to make orange. Laboring over such nuances is inevitable in discussing color; Jonas' book may provoke more discussion than she intended. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
