This book is great for discussing colors. Every color is found in the deep blue sea. At the end of the book there is a rainbow of the deep blue sea. This book is full of vivid colors and is great for children in kindergarten. I would do a picture walk with this book and do a read aloud. If I was to use this for first grade I would have them read it in small group. I suggest you read this book and see what you see in the deep blue sea! ( )

I thought that this book would be appropriate for someone probably younger than kindergarten because most children that are this age or higher already know their colors. Other than learning your colors out of it, it was not a very interesting book. Another thing that it would be go to use for, however, would be choral reading because it is very repetitive in the beginning.

This repetitive story starts out in the sea, then expands to a red rock, a green tree, ect. Then a cloud covers up the sun and it rains. Then the fishes come out to play. A good website for this book is: http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780...

From Booklist
PreS. Following beginning concept books such as Alphabet Adventure 2001) and Ten Little Fish (2004), this fourth title from the mother-son team introduces basic colors with the neon-bright hues of the tropics. Bruce Wood's dimensional, computer-generated artwork shows a tiny desert island--a rock, really--in the middle of a deep blue sea. The simple, cumulative text adds a new object, and a new color, with each spread: a green tree, a brown nut, a purple parrot, and an orange butterfly all appear, before a white cloud turns gray, a storm drenches the rock, and a rainbow forms. This isn't a necessary purchase, but the uncluttered spreads, brilliant colors, and tropical setting, populated with a few winsome creatures, will draw toddlers who are beginning to tackle the basics. Gillian Engberg
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