Author: Menena Cottin
Illustrator: Rosana Faria
Translator: Elisa Amado
Groundwood Books (2006)
For Mirette's third birthday her half-sister Lily baked her an orange birthday cake. It tasted orange, so orange, that I mentioned to Lily that eating a piece of her cake would be a good way to explain orange to a blind person.
The Black Book of Colors does just that. In this book, the blind person can imagine what the colors look like through the evocative words like black is the king of all the colors. It is as soft as silk when his mother hugs him and her hair falls in his face. Likewise, the sighted person can imagine what it feels like to use his/her sense of touch to experience a book.
Menena and Rosana are both Venezuelan. There are no English language websites on these two.
Wow--four reviews in one night. All of the four books are award winners and each appeared on several best of lists. I am seriously wowed by each of these books. Happy reading.
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