Spicy Hot Colors: Colores Picantes

By Sherry Shahan

Book Overview

Winner of the NAPPA Children's Resources Gold Award

Colors explode off the page in this energetic, jazzy picture book introducing readers to colors in both English and Spanish. In a style brimming with rhythm and syncopation, author Sherry Shahan introduces nine colors by interweaving images and dance steps. Ecuadoran artist Paula Barrag n's illustrations capture the rhythm and vivacity of the text.

This book, which Publishers Weekly called "a feast for the eyes and ears," received a NAPPA Gold Award and was featured on the PBS Kids program "Between the Lions". Similar to Fiesta and Cool Cats Counting, Shahan and Barrag n spice up a vital learning foundation. This bold read is a great way to incorporate colors and the Spanish language into lesson plans and general reading routines.

August House Publishers offer free lesson plans for Spicy Hot Colors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874838150
• ISBN13: 9780874838152
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: August House Publishers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.4" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Wonderful bilingual colors book with rythem!

Great book. It has rythem and is billingual, we enjoy reading this one over and over.

learn some spanish

Spicy Hot Colors is a picture book teaching the names of colors in Spanish. Each color is given a full page spread. The name of the color is mentioned in English and then the spanish word is listed as well. In the back there is a vocabulary list for words that kids might not know the meanings of. Also is a helpful pronunciation guide for the Spanish words that are listed in the book. The illustrations were bright and bold. They went well with the text. I would recommend this book to educators who are teaching basic Spanish. The book was very helpful in home school while learning the names of colors in Spanish

A haunting presentation for young readers

From ballet to books: Sherry Shahan is a dancer/author who in Spicy Hot Colors is passionate about rhythm and here she incorporates the rhythmic elements of Latin American culture into a superbly presented bilingual coverage of colors. Illustrator Paula Barragan creates the colors, while jazzy poetry uses English and Spanish to reveal colors to the very young. A dancing, a haunting presentation for young readers.