John Jeremy Colton

By Bryan Jeffery Leech

Book Overview

Although shunned by his neighbors because of his oddly colored house, John Jeremy Colton proves that he is capable of being a hero in a time of crisis. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562826506
• ISBN13: 9781562826505
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Hyperion
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 0.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A colorful story of healing and redemption

This book has been one of my kids' favorites ever since we received a copy two years ago. The rhythm of the language appeals to them in a musical way, and the illustrations (wild and colorful for John Jeremy; dour and gray and rigid for the villagers) communicate the story's message to even the youngest child. It's also a story of healing and redemption. After John Jeremy rescues his detractor from a terrible fire, the villagers decide to embrace him and his wild ways. I just read this book to a class of 5-year-olds in San Diego, a week after our October fires, and they listened with rapt attention. Thank you, thank you to the author and illustrators for this wonderful book.

"[this book] is fun... becase it teches you sum lesens."

My six year old daughter has enjoyed this book for three years. The rhythmic cadence is contagious, the images dance, the swirling type is fun. This is one of our all-time favorites! If a six year old can read it - with it's changing typefaces and innovative layout - then anyone can! We are going to donate it to our school library.

This is a Fantastically Different book

The message is wonderful and important. The style is definitely different and very clever; flowing lines, crazy fonts, great graphics and bright colors. It's not hard to read at all. It's definitely not boring. It even seems like there are pictures hidden on each page, giving you something new to discover each time you read it. Absolutely Wonderful!!

I have given this book over and over again - A FAVORITE!!!

I love this book!!! How could I ever exclaim its merits with only 1000 word or less... Everything about it is top notch! The quality of the book/paper/cover, the explosion of color on every page, the amazing and amusing way inwhich the words dance across each page and, most of all, the very important lesson that comes to life in this valuable story - "Don't judge a book by its cover". There is powerful magic to the rhythm and rhyme of the lymeric that never gets old. My heart soars when he asks me to read it. It gets so many requests that it is the only book that never gets put away! There is NOTHING hard about reading this book! The words flow naturally and after a first time through you'll find so much joy in it that you will start to commit it to memory by accident!!! The most difficult thing is the fact that you get to keep moving the book around because the words spiral and dance - WE LOVE IT!!! And I bet you will too!!! - Phil

my sons favorite book

this book is very fresh and innovative, great story, beautifully designed and really fun to read. Whoever said it was difficult to read does not read the same books over and over to their children. This book is full of surprizes.