Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors by Joyce Sidman

This book is not at all what I was expecting. It’s basically a long poem, written as a picture book with each page representing a color and a season associated with that color. My favorite touch was the illustrations for multiple reasons. For one, the first time through I thought they were unique, but they didn’t seem to go along with the text of the poem. However, when I read it again I realized that though the art work is unique and different, it does reiterate and support the text you just have to look multiple times or you might miss something. Then, the most unique thing that I noticed was the fact that every page and every illustration had some type of object made out of what looked like newspaper or a page from a book. Most of the time it was obvious, but other times it was so subtle that I found myself looking for it on every page. The last thing that I noticed and really liked was that every time a color is mentioned in the text, it was boxed in and the word was written in that color. This would be a good book to use for an introduction to poetry or for use in a unit on poetry.