It’s Sure to Bring Smiles
Publisher’s Description
Gray just wants to be included. But the other colors are always leaving him out. So he decides to create his own project: an all-gray book. Once upon a time, there lived a wolf, a kitten, and a hippo…
Gray just knows it’s going to be perfect. But as he adds page after page, the Primary and Secondary colors show up…and they aren’t quite so complimentary.
A book within a book, this colorful tale explores the ideas of fitting in, appreciating others, and looking at things from another perspective and also uses personality and wit to introduce basic color concepts.
Details
- Title: This Book Is Gray
- Author: Lindsay Ward
- Publisher: Two Lions (December 1, 2019)
- Hardcover: 40 pages
- Age Range: 4 – 8
- Take a Sneak Peek Inside
My Thoughts
Gray feels completely left out since the other colors ignore him most of the time. But I’m so proud of him. He attempts to solve his own problem rather than become a whiner.
He is making the greatest book ever. And guess what? It’s going to be all Gray!
And so the story begins.
The story is on the gray side and the illustrations are beautiful shades of gray.
But it only takes a few pages before . . .
Hey, Gray, what are you doin’?
This looks dismal, bleak, and gloomy.
Yeah, this is kind of depressing . . . .
Though Gray assures his friends that the weather is just a little overcast in his story, will he have a little interference as he tries to continue? Surely, a perfect book can consist of just one color, can’t it?
This is an awesome book as it stands, or it can easily be used to help teach the color wheel, cooperation, and much more.
What Concerned Me
Nothing
What I Liked Most
It’s a fun book that can be used for both entertainment and teaching. The text is witty and the illustrations bright and kid-friendly.
About the Author
Born and raised in sunny California, Lindsay decided to try snow and moved to upstate New York where she received her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University. After bouncing around a bit in New York and Boston, she landed in Ohio (for the love of her life of course!) Her most recent books include This Book Is Gray and the Amazon Bestselling Dexter T. Rexter series: Vacation for Dexter!, It’s Show and Tell, Dexter! and Don’t Forget Dexter! (Two Lions).
She is also the author of Brobarians (Two Lions, 2017), The Importance of Being 3 (Dial, 2016), Rosco vs. the Baby (S&S, 2016), Henry Finds His Word (Dial, 2015), a Choose to Read Ohio Book, When Blue Met Egg (Dial, 2012), and Please Bring Balloons (Dial, 2013), which was produced into a play by the New York City Children’s Theater in 2017. Her work has been reviewed in Kirkus Reviews, Publisher’s Weekly, and The New York Times.
In 2017, Lindsay founded Critter Lit, a free online picture book manuscript and illustration critique service for up-and-coming authors and illustrators, which she co-runs with her husband, author Frank Tupta.
Lindsay lives in Peninsula, Ohio, just south of Cleveland, with Frank, their three boys, and Sally, a rambunctious pit-bull\lab mix who keeps things interesting. Most days you can find her sketching and writing in her studio or editing manuscripts for Critter Lit.
UPCOMING BOOKS:
Rosie: Stronger Than Steel | Picture Book | Two Lions | March 2020
I Build! | I Go! Board Book Series, Book 2 | HarperFestival | July 2020
Scooper & Dumper | Picture Book | Two Lions | November 2020
Between the Lines | Picture Book | Two Lions | Spring 2021
