They Say Blue

Caldecott Honor winner Jillian Tamaki’s board book They Say Blue is a playful, poetic exploration of color and point of view.

A Boston Globe–Horn Book Picture Book Award Winner

In captivating paintings full of movement and transformation, we follow a young girl through a year or a day as she examines the colors in the world around her. Egg yolks are sunny orange as expected, yet water cupped in her hands isn’t blue like they say. But maybe a blue whale is blue. She doesn’t know; she hasn’t...