Booklist Review

The engineers behind 2019's wondrous You Are Light return with another innovative approach to color primers. Here, each spread contains a uniform five-by-five grid of colored squares. Traditional cardboard pages are intercut by others where squares--ranging from a few to all--are made of an embedded (and sturdy) translucent, colored film. As the filmy squares overlay the cardboard, each page turn causes shifting color combinations, with the glossy material adding luster and texture. As a first-person voice debates their favorite color, Becker leads them through the spectrum, drawing poetic comparisons to nature that lend meaning to the abstract visuals ("Yellow, like the sun in a clear blue sky" pairs with a grid of yellows and blues). Instead of focusing on single shades, pages include entire ranges of reds, purples, blues. The basic premise--picking your favorite color--is enough to engage any toddler or preschool audience, but the mind-boggling depth of beauty and bookmaking ingenuity puts this offering on another level.