Pomelo Explores Color (Pomelo the Garden Elephant)

This is one of my kids favorite books. I actually got this one for our niece and nephew because they are going to have a baby. It's such a cute book with fun pages and beautiful colors!

we LOVE all the pomelo books. LOVE LOVE LOVE! talented, creative illustrator and story teller. happiness is.... a pomelo book!

This is a very unique book with amazing adjectives and the CUTEST illustration!! My boys are so obsessed with this story that after we had to return it to the library, I immediately purchased a copy on here!

One of the best children books ever! Simply beautiful, well done, lengthy, and a hit for everyone who reads it including the kids!

Best book about color ever, because it is also about the sublime. It is nicer in page-book form, but get the board book version for the small fry.

cute children's book. creative and well written. can't wait to collect all the books in the pomelo series. keep them coming!

Ramona Badescu does one of the best jobs describing colors in a children's book that I have ever seen. Her approach is brilliant, going beyond the appearance of color, using objects and events to describe the way the certain colors can make a person feel or the memories colors can represent. On top of that, her sense of humor shines through.I typically prefer large picture books over small ones, but this one is an exception: 6.5" by 6.5" is just right for Pomelo and his colors. The right side of each page presents the illustration and the left offers a one sentence description. I had expected one page for each color, but it's so much more interesting to have a couple. The swirling blue of the sky is quite different than the icy blue of winter, and the messy brown of mud is a completely different color from the shiny brown of chestnuts.I laughed at the revealing purple of blueberries both because of the guilty look on Pomelo's face put there by the ring of blueberry juice around his mouth and because she's right, those berries are far more purple than blue. We also liked the green-gray of rot and the tiny insects who were clustered around, immensely enjoying that moldy lemon. We laughed ourselves silly to see Pomelo lying face down among the dangerous gray of stones.Altogether very smart and clever. Wonderful for a fairly large age range; smaller kids will enjoy the colors and illustrations, while older kids will understand the humor. I hope Pomelo comes through with a third book.

Bought for a four year old and mailed to him, so I didn't observe his reactions. According to his family he liked the concept and learned and/or reinforced his knowledge of colors.