Elmer's Colors (Board Book)

by David McKee

Book Overview

Explore colours with Elmer, the patchwork elephant. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688137628
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: HarperFestival
• Length: 16 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.4" x 0.4" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

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Very happy that there is a children's book in Italian/English. Hope it will help the baby pick up italian easier.

Great for beginners to Arabic and bilingual Arabic/English families

The Elmer series in general is simple to read both in Arabic and English yet engaging enough that my 6 year old still finds it interesting. If you are learning to read Arabic this is a great book to have. It obviously teaches colors (although I learned a different word for purple than whats in the book and it also doesn't teach the color brown (boony if you feel you need to know) but aside from just giving you a listing of colors you can also hear them used in a sentence such as "White is a snowman" and "He has a purple scarf to keep him warm". It doesn't use the colors in a way that that the sentence would change the form to a masculine or feminine variant of the color. this means red will always appear as ahmar instead of the gendered hamra) this is both a plus and a minus since it keeps things consistant but also does not teach you proper usage of the color as it would normally be used. If your a bilingual family this is also great because the children can get the story in both Arabic and English (and for english speakers who are trying to read it in Arabic the sentences are small and simple enough you probably can do it ... of course it never seems to come out as your Arabic speaking counterpart). This is also a very sturdy board book with rounded corners making it great for reading to babies, preschoolers, or even young kids.

A Favorite

This book is one of my two-year-old's favorites. Elmer is very lovable, the story and pictures are entertaining and the book is sturdy/made well. I would recommend all of the books in this set.

Elmer's Colors

My son adores this book. We started reading it when he was four months old and he has never tired of it (he is now 16 months). I kept checking it out of the library until finally I decided it would be worth buying him one! He loves the adventures of the colorful patchwork elephant and can now point out all the items on the pages (the yellow lemon, the green grass, etc). This is one of the books he has consistently enjoyed and is happy to have me read it 5 times in a row every day!

Great book for under 1

Our infant son loves this book! He seems to really respond to Elmer and the bright colors he experiences in this nice little book.