The world is black and white until one day a young boy notices Violet, a girl from his class. She is picking up bits and pieces from the footpath - brightly coloured things but things that are mostly rubbish.
"What do you do with it all?" "All of what?" "The wrappers and trash and leaves."
Violet invites the boy to her home which is an apartment at the top of a New York brownstone. Violet opens the door to her room and the colour explode. She has made a most wonderful art work on every wall of her room showing images of her home far away. This could be a sad book but it ends in hope as we can be sure that this young boy will be a wonderful friend to Violet and she will find a path to happiness in her new country.
Now for the bad news. I want to say this book would be a great addition to your school library but here in Australia it costs more then AUS$35 so sadly very few library will feel able to include this gentle story into their collection. Some of my spelling friends may also have a little trouble with color and not colour but really I think that is unimportant. This book is not really about colour it is about friendship, acceptance of difference, sharing, immigration, home, and trust.
Here is the author web page. And here is the website for Renia Metallinou from Greece. Please try to find this book to read before you read The Color Collector:
2 comments:
NSW has this book on its mentor text list!
And it will be way to expensive for most schools to purchase. That is so crazy.
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