Loved the simple, but beautiful water colors. I think this is a great read to use pictures to help understand the words. Bilingualism was helpful as well. Only worry about the one "crushy" heteronormative page:) ( )

Watercolor illustrations of every color and focus on illustrations of natural world, and it has bilingual poems. Great addition for beginners in spanish!

wonderful bilingual poetry about colors! ( )

diverse picture book (bilingual English/Spanish; colors; preschool ages 3-6).
*Book prominently features diverse characters: Maybe not prominently, but not tokenly either: more than half of the spreads don't include people, but the ones that do feature dark-skinned children (I'm not counting the personification of Night as an actual person). The bilingual quality also goes a long way to include other cultures, though I am not fluent enough to speak for their translations. The author is (according to the book jacket) one of Mexico's "foremost authors for children" and the illustrator is "South Africa's most celebrated illustrator for children."
* Book would work for a preschool storytime: yes, though this is a quieter story that best would suit older kids (who are accustomed to sitting through circle time).
* Book would work for "colors" theme, but some of the colors are harder to identify and it doesn't work as well for audience participation--"beige" is not in most children's vocabulary and will need to be given by the reading, the watercolor of the "green" looks kind of blue/turquoise-ish, while the "red" is overshadowed by oranges in another spread. There are also some small inconstencies: one little girl's eyes, according to the text, are blue, but the picture shows a dark-skinned girl with black hair and black eyes. ( )

This book is a bilingual book about the colors. Jorge Lujan has the Spanish written right underneath the english. He talks about things that are the colors on the page and rhymes a little too!

This is a great book for a multilingual classroom or family! You can read that sentences back to back to figure out what the words say. This is a great way to learn the colors, as they are printed in color in both the english and Spanish versions! The illustrations take you on a little journey while the words help you learn!