The Black Book of Colors

This is truly a beautiful book that can be appreciated by both adults and children. I am a Prekindergarten teacher and one of our units focuses solely on books. One of the things we introduce the children to is braille. Earlier this week I gave them a brief history of Louis Braille and introduced them to Hellen Keller. I brought this book in today to share with them as well as other staff members. It has quickly become a center favourite. The embossed images and braille along with the sensory descriptions of colours allow sighted people to begin to explore the world from the point of view of someone with blindness. An all around wonderful book.

Braille is slightly hard to read because of the paper. It was interesting to see if the blind individual could figure out the raised picture. Definitely harder for individuals who were blind from birth to figure out the pictures.

This book is wonderful! However the Braille and embossed images are not very tactile. They could be raised more. Otherwise a great experience for the seeing child to put them in the place of others.

This book provides a different experience of reading. I think every family and every classroom should have this. It such a kinesthetic and imaginative experience that is unlike any other. It is not cheesy, but it is a sweet book. It is short and without many words, but I would say it is for all readers because of the experience it provides. I first learned about this from a Montessori reading conference I went to and decided that it was so cool!

This book is so neat! It is special because it gives you a different way to read and explore the book. I used it in my student teaching class and had the children describe some of the items in the book before I read it, encouraging them not to use sight words. Then, I had them close their eyes as I read some of the pages. Lastly, I let them each feel the page at the back before they went outside to play. They LOVED it! i HIGHLY recommend this book and encourage you to have it in your classroom to promote diversity and a different way of thinking.

Love the book and how it describes the colors. I was a little disappointed that the Braille was light and not raised more. But overall. Nice book.

It is written in both words and in Braille; and the illustrations are embossed for the blind to feel the pictures. I used it as a teaching tool for kids who can see; and it was wonderful to see the lights coming on in their minds as to what it might be like to be blind. It also has the entire Braille alphabet. I paired this book with the book, "Six Dots: A Story of Louis Braille." Both are excellent!

I wanted to love this, but the raised images and braille writing is NOT raised enough to be read by your fingers alone. It gets the point across to kids about how the blind cannot see colors and have to feel things, but it would have been far more effective IF the pictures you were touching had a distinct different feel or pattern that you could easily distinguish by your fingers. But the images are just normal illustrations of objects that are just printed in a raised form. Ultimately every images feels like a bumpy blob, so with your eyes shut and only using your hands, you cannot identify any specific object. I suggest pairing this book with real feathers, leaves, etc. so they can actually feel the colors in real life. Kids could be blindfolded while doing it. Because you can use the book in that way, I give it 3 stars, but the book alone is only 2 stars. Great concept - bad execution - but still usable.

The book is nicely designed. Black is always captivating, the only question is the target audience. This is not a book for visually impaired people, because the book has smaller embossment then necessary for the blind and visually impair people. Lovely design for people that see. The book itself is a nice design object, but for people who see. The visual impaired and blind people have nothing from the beautiful design.Hope to see more from the same author in this direction. Otherwise, lovely book.

This book is beautiful. suggested.

El producto llegó con defectos en las hojas, reporté este error y el recolector nunca se presentó.El libro es una propuesta muy interesante la cuál muestra ilustraciónes elaboradas con registros de barníz, todo sobre fondo negro.

Precioso libro. Aunque podría mejorar si el braille tuviera los puntos más marcados.

Neat and clean. I liked the concept. But felt it was a bit overhyped, especially for those with normal eyesight. Could have been more flamboyantly described.