What Color Is Your World

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions a lineup of little-known African-American inventors in this lively, kid-friendly book. Did you know that James West invented the microphone in your cell phone? That Fred Jones invented the refrigerated truck that makes supermarkets possible? Or that Dr. Percy Julian synthesized cortisone from soy, easing untold people’s pain? These are just some of the black inventors and innovators scoring big points in this dynamic look at several unsung heroes who shared a desire to improve people’s lives. Offering profiles with fast facts on flaps and framed by a funny contemporary story featuring two feisty twins, here is a nod to the minds behind the gamma electric cell and the ice-cream scoop, improvements to traffic lights, open-heart surgery, and more — inventors whose ingenuity and perseverance against great odds made our world safer, better, and brighter. Back matter includes an authors’ note and sources.

"What Colour Is Your World? encourages children and their parents to think about colour and look at the world in a new way."--Publisher's website.

A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color. We have an extraordinary connection to color—we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors—black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green—and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history. Through a series of stories and vignettes, the book then traces these meanings to show how they morphed and multiplied and, ultimately, how they reveal a great deal about the societies that produced them: reflecting and shaping their hopes, fears, prejudices, and preoccupations. Fox also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give to hue. And using his background as an art historian, he explores many of the milestones in the history of art—from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein—in a fresh way. Fox also weaves in literature, philosophy, cinema, archaeology, and art—moving from Monet to Marco Polo, early Japanese ink artists to Shakespeare and Goethe to James Bond. By creating a new history of color, Fox reveals a new story about humans and our place in the universe: second only to language, color is the greatest carrier of cultural meaning in our world.

PICTURE BOOKS. A much loved children's classic reissued for the first time in forty years. What colour is your world? If you lie in the grass, the world is green, turn over, look at the sky; it's blue. If you ask a gardener, he will tell you his world is green, while the bricklayer's world is red and the stargazer's world is black. But suppose you ask an artist - he will tell you that colours keep changing.

A basic understanding of how colour works is essential - and Maria Flynn is an expert. She takes the reader through the science of how we see colour, of how many of us can feel colour, to emphasise the effects that colours can have on people, and the fe

Kids can color cute pictures of a young girl and her puppy as they explore the woods. Plus, there are hidden pictures, creative art projects, easy snack recipes, and a journal for recording observations along the way.

Follows Barney and his friends as they explore the world of colors. On board pages.