A is for Azure: The Alphabet in Colors
Brilliant ink-on-tile illustrations created with a secret process bring the alphabet to colorful life. Children will delight in the rich, poetic language of colors like emerald, jasmine, and quartz—while also meeting old favorites like yellow, orange and purple. A color key and pronunciation guide (for new colors like "zaffre," which rhymes with "laugher") is included.
Peek in at the process of 'V is for vermilion, a vermilion climb' in the making.... because play is important:
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‘A is for Azure’: Tifton artist works on children’s book.
By Stuart Taylor in The Tifton Gazette, Tifton GA! |
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Gallery Show
From Azure to Zaffre in the News: Artist Donna Falcone finds art and healing by
following the ink to GMA Gallery By Shelby Evans for the Tifton Gazette. |
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A is for Azure
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Maureen Doallas's interview about A is for Azure digs deep! You can read it on her blog, Writing Without Paper. Part 1 Part 2 |
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Find delightful LITERACY EXTRAS, like these A is for Azure Pronunciation Videos and vibrant reproducibles on Tweetspeak Poetry. You will also meet Molly and Joe for some tongue twisting, early reading fun and games!
Featured on The Huffington Post
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This book is bursting with color and joy as well as unpredictable and delicious words--like zaffre and heliotrope. I could gaze on the beauty of one "brilliant ink-on-tile" illustration for an hour--like the lilac frill, says Sandra King
Rose Marciano says I will probably be ordering more for my grandchildren.
My kids and I have been flipping through it, over and over, letting the colors wash over us. We're trying to choose our favorite pages—it's not easy, says Bethany
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Reviews are coming in
for A is for Azure. Here's what people are saying. 
"Ooooo. Wow." Elias, 4 years old.
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As a speech-language pathologist, I am often in search of simple materials that will help my students generate connections in their expression, and this book will be a valuable resource in my back-to-school library, says Michelle Ortega,
From Vicki Adesso: each time I pick up A is for Azure, I am surprised by the magic synchronicity of the language and the images. A beautiful work of art.
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Laura Brown has this to say:
It truly has something for all ages. I read it to a toddler this morning, and all by himself, he started searching for the colored letters in the text. He saw the fir tree on the F page and pointed to a tree outside. He noticed a splotch of the I color on the J page. Where I saw a butterfly, he saw a lion For its beauty, its invitation to browse again and again, add another category: coffee table book. |