Am I A Color Too?

Heidi Cole and Nancy Vogl
Illumination Arts Publishing Co. (2005)
ISBN 0974019054
Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for Reader Views (8/06)

A young boy questions why people look first at another’s color rather than the important aspects of being human.  This “Christopher Award” winning book is educational and beautifully written.  The verse is light and cheerful.  The illustrations are beautifully done. “Am I A Color Too?” is a question many children must ask themselves.  They hear one person called black and another called white.  They look around them and see a rainbow of people as they walk down the street.  Heidi and Nancy Vogl do a wonderful job of presenting color to our children

“When I think of all the people,
All those faces in my sight,
If people are really colors,
They must be more than
Black or white.”

People are more than black and white, as this book successfully points out, they dance in color and they smile in color.  This book should inspire us to look at each other as humans and to cherish those things that make us special.

I recommend this book for young children.  It has a delightful message that they will learn from.  If we all looked at each other without seeing color we would love each other for who we are.

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