Get Red! An Adventure in Color

By Tony Porto

Book Overview

Every kid can relate to the typical homework task of doing a report about Mars. But when Get Red!'s young narrator turns to his trusty red crayon - which has grown less and less cooperative the more... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316609404
• ISBN13: 9780316609401
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5

Customer Reviews

Best children's book of 2002

Excellent choice for a chidren's library, even my older kids loved this book, clever, innovative, can't wait for the color purple.

Adventures in Red.....

As our young narrator tells us, he's got a huge problem. He has a report due about the planet Mars, you know the RED planet, and his RED crayon has run away. They've had a lot good times together this year, learned lots of cool RED things, and done a few special RED projects, but now, when he really needs him the most, that RED crayon has just up and disappeared. What's a guy to do? He could try coloring Mars purple. Purple's almost like red, and maybe no one will notice..... Tony Porto and partners, Mitch Rice and Glenn Deutsch offer a clever and entertaining tribute to the color red. Their engaging text, written in an easy to read, conversational style, is filled with humor and marvelous red fun facts and trivia. The bold, bright, and busy illustrations, rich in playful details and wit, add to all the fun. Perfect for emerging readers or as a story time crowd pleaser, Get Red! is a manic, fun-filled romp, and we can only hope, the beginning of a new and colorful series.

Go out and "Get Red"

Get Red is a fun book with an engaging story. I appreciated that the book had fun facts at the bottom of each page that I could share with my kids. I even learned some red things my self. The book is beautifully designed and illustrated. I am looking forward to reading the next color to my kids. I highly recommend this book for family reading.

The Color Red and so much more... (a reading teacher)

This is a wonderfully imaginative book that will please both kids and adults who will be requested to read it again and again. Of course, I may be prejudiced--red is my FAVORITE color. While the main story recounts a common kid's dilemma--a school report on Mars is due and the red crayon has disappeared--the tiny encapsulated text at the bottom of the page presents facts interesting to both children and adults. For example, the red stitching in a baseball, if unwound, equals 7 feet and the text goes on to present a mini-history of the Red Stocking, then Red Sox baseball team. The pictures, which reflect both the story and the encapsulated information, are big, bright and to the point--jumping off the page in not only vivid red, but other primary colors, as well. While the story and information are presented in a picture book format, the encapsulated text will be of interest to students up to 6th grade and will be a welcome change from the chapter and information books most upper elementary school children read. Well, Mr. Porto and 3CD, we're just waiting for more colors: purple? blue? yellow? Let's hear some more about the fascinating primary colors and their uses all around us.