Balderdash the Brilliant

This is a wonderful book. All 3 of my children loved to have it read to them again and again. It has a nice and interesting storyline about an old magician being called out of retirement to bring color to the Kingdom of Gray. The illustrations are great and it teaches all about mixing colors in an interesting way.

The nice thing about this book is, most other color books do primary and secondary colors, red and yellow make orange, that sort of thing. But Balderdash goes beyond that, introducing terciary colors, the colors one gets by mixing ajoining primary and secondary colors, in such a way that small children are soon making magenta, vermillion and chartruse ( a favorite in my class). I have used this book for years teaching 4 and 5 year olds how to mix colors, and it builds great vocabulary and introduces them into a world of colors beyond just the rainbow. Oh and speaking of rainbows, Balderdash also mentions long forgotten "indigo" when it mentions the rainbow. I was an art major in college along with my education major and I know from good art books. This is one worth hunting down and picking up.