Otto's Orange Day (Toon Books)

LIDO!

this boy loves orange ( )

Otto's favorite color is orange. He colors things orange, sings songs about orange and plays with orange toys. One day, he gets a package from a distant aunt and inside is a small lamp. Otto rubs the lamp and out comes the genie -- offering only one wish to Otto. He thinks about wishing for something orange but goes one better -- wishing that everything could be orange! At first he loves it but then he realizes that not everything is better when it's orange and even the color loses some of its lustre when everything else is the same.

The kid thought this was a hilarious idea! I wonder if he had thought about everything being orange before this. This Toon Book is a bit longer and is broken into three small "chapters" but since it's a comic, it's really not too taxing for younger kids. The artwork is amazing in this volume!

http://webereading.com/2010/01/comics-for-fun-and-learning.html ( )

I loved this book but possibly because I love the color orange! The illustrations were wonderful because they made the story very memorable. I think it would appeal to children because it looked like a cartoon from the TV. I hope to do a read-aloud of this book with my students. ( )

This was a very fun read and easy to follow. ironically, my sons favorite is orange and he really enjoyed thinking about this kind of wish coming true. It was fun to watch him realize, at the same pace as Otto, it would not be all that great. A very interactive book, because it asked the reader to find the genie lamp. It was educational to ask what colors things use to be or should be, such as, lizards, the sky, ducks, bees, cows, and trees. There was a point where people’s appearance was questioned and the lesson learned that everybody is different somehow. The illustrations were very detailed.