Armadillo Magazine Review - I Can See Nature's Rainbow
Lovely review over at Armadillo Magazine
I Can See Nature's Rainbow
Vicky Woodgate, pub. Scholastic Children’s Books
Don't you love Scholastic books? I certainly do. Since those early years in school when we used to receive a catalogue of scholastic books to choose from and read the myriad tales of myth, magic, puzzles, trivia, and science.
Here is one more for you- a beautiful combination of new words, names, creatures of the earth, a sprinkle of science and lots of colours, I Can See Nature's Rainbow by commercial artist and author Vicky Woodgate. With her 25 years of experience as an artist she fills this 31-page infotainment book creating a display of nature's artistry in turn.
An artist's vision is unique and that's what we see as readers when we enter the world of nature's magic through pages dedicated to single colours. The book begins with blue - that deep beautiful soft shade, which is there in the sky, of the whale, of the ocean as we know, but did you know that there's a blue daisy and a blue iguana and a blue Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey too? Wait for more because as we enter the colour green in nature's world, we get to know about green sloths, green Lynx Spider, Green Catbird and not only who is green but their special features too, I bet you didn't know the green Kakapo parrot is the world’s heaviest parrot, it weighs as much as a brick!
Surprised or not, you will go on to meet more such astonishing creatures, plants, animals and even crystals with interesting facts. This book is an interesting read for adults and a must in a child's library, good for ages 7 and above, not only to learn the facts, but also to experience the beauty, colours and variety of this world they inhabit in which a rainbow will cease to be a rare phenomenon once they learn to form their own rainbows with colours curated by them, as a gift from mother nature!
Ishika Tiwari