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Colorful Kisses Reviewed By Maria Savva of Bookpleasures.com
- By Maria Savva
- Published August 30, 2012
- Childrens & Young Adults
Maria Savva
Reviewer Maria Savva : Maria is a lawyer and writer from the UK. She has published four novels and three collections of short stories and she is currently editing her fifth novel. She is also a resident author/moderator for BestsellerBound.com. You can find out more about Maria by following on her WEBSITE.
Author: Melissa Fusarelli
ISBN: 978-0982773796
Colorful Kisses is a children’s book, wonderfully illustrated by the author, Melissa Fusarelli. (The author is a freelance illustrator as well as an Art Educator, and has a BFA in illustration design and an MS degree in Art Education.) The preface of the book states that the idea behind the book was inspired by the author’s young daughter, Molly, and the ‘beautiful colors’ that the author sees in her daughter’s ‘various routines throughout the day.’
The character in
the book is called Molly. At the start of the book, ‘The smiling
sun delivers dawn with a kiss’, and Molly asks her mother what
colour her own kisses are. Her mother explains that they are ‘all
colors’. Then the book goes on to describe the different colours of
Molly’s kisses depending on the changing moods and feelings of the
child. For example, Molly’s morning kisses are described as pink
and ‘soft and sweet’, she has yellow ‘happy’ kisses ‘when
you learn something new’, purple kisses 'as you march and play’,
whereas her ‘gray kisses’ are ‘when you’re tired and don’t
know why.’
The book cleverly takes various typical activities
from a child’s day -- such as playing with a toy, playing hide and
seek, bath time -- and adds a colour associated with a feeling that
the child might be having during that particular activity. It’s a
sweet book. It could be used as a nice way to teach the different
colours to younger children. It is essentially a book that looks at
the different feelings associated with various colours as seen
through the eyes of a child.
The illustrations are lovely and they
help to show the different moods associated with the colours. As I
turned each page, I could really get a sense of the feeling behind
each colour as described by the words used. This shows the talent
behind creating the book. I think the colour associations are great,
and the pictures and words really go together well to create a nice
book that would be perfect as a gift for a child. This book would be
suitable to read to pre-school children, and would also be a fun book
for a slightly older child to read themselves. The author has used
her experience and knowledge and artistic talent to create a great
book that educates children about art, the use of colour, and
feelings and emotions associated with colour.