Red - by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow a young fox as it searches for a way home, through a world of many shades of red, after being separated from its family.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the Two-time Caldecott Honor Award winning author/illustrator of <i>Green</i> and <i>Blue</i> comes<i> Red, </i> a story about a lost fox that explores emotions-- fear, love, anger, and more-- through the use of vivid color.</b> <p/><i>Dark Red, </i><br><i>Light Red, </i><br><i>Lost red, </i><br><i>Bright red.</i> <p/>With a combination of sumptuous illustrations, ingenious die-cut pages, and simple text, <i>Red </i>is a beautiful companion to the Caldecott Honor Book <i>Green</i> and the highly acclaimed <i>Blue.</i> In this book, award-winning artist Laura Vaccaro Seeger once again turns her attention to the ways in which color evokes emotion. <p/>Separated from its family, a lone fox experiences, anger, fear, and ultimately love as it journeys home. Lost and alone, he makes his way through a dark forest, injures his paw, has glancing encounters with humans, and finds himself trapped in a cage, before an act of kindness returns him to the wilderness.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Laura Vaccaro Seeger has wrought meaning and serendipity from the permutations of a single hue.<b><i>--Wall Street Journal</i></b> <p/> ★ Seeger masterfully draws readers into the unique, powerful link between emotion and color through her story of a lost red fox meeting human-made barriers on his journey home. . . . Wrapped in the heavy, honest tensions between color and emotion, Seeger emboldens children to connect with the young fox's story and feel the raw consequence of humans' indifferent influence on the environment.<b><i>--School Library Journal</i>, Starred Review</b> <p/>★ A worthy companion to its two acclaimed thematic predecessors, <i>Green</i> (2012) and <i>Blue</i> (2018). . . . Seeger's thickly painted illustrations deftly convey these myriad emotions. . . . The color red appears in autumn sunsets and sunrises, late-blooming flowers, ripe apples, and the foliage of the trees while strategically placed die-cuts add interest to the already involving tale of a youngster trying to find its way home.<b><i>--Booklist</i>, Starred Review</b> <p/>★ Gorgeous, autumnal red-golds visually narrate the fox's unwitting incursions into a rural landscape studded with human-made barriers. . . .<b><i>--Kirkus Reviews, </i>Starred Review</b> <p/>★ As with Red's predecessors, Seeger pairs the sparest rhyming text with lovingly labored-over die-cut art. . . . Seeger's acrylics are up to the heavy lifting required by a minimal text. Each spread wears its brushstrokes with pride, the paint at times thin enough to let the canvas peek through. The technique reminds attentive readers of the human presence behind Red, which aligns with the book's message: while the specter of danger looms over the fox, human kindness prevails in the form of a girl who plays a key role in the story.<b><i>--Shelf Awareness, </i>Starred Review</b> <p/> The painterly acrylic images and strategic die-cuts immerse viewers in the fox's world and trials, from it trailing the pack to becoming lost to enduring hunger, injury, and capture, until its eventual return to its family. . . . The story is an anytime one, the fox a stand-in for anyone going through trouble on the way to security.<b><i>--The Horn Book</i><br></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Laura Vaccaro Seeger is the author and illustrator of nearly two dozen acclaimed picture books, including <i>Why</i>, the recipient of four starred reviews, and the popular <i>Dog and Bear</i> series, the first of which won the Boston Globe Horn Book Medal. She has been awarded a Caldecott Honor twice, for <i>First the Egg</i> and again for <i>Green</i>, and a Geisel Honor twice, for <i>First the Egg</i> and <i>One Boy</i>. <i>Blue</i>, her companion to <i>Green</i>, has received four starred reviews. She lives in Rockville Center, New York.
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