Monsters Love Colors

by Mike Austin, Mike Austin (Illustrator)

Overview

An explosively bright and colorful picture book with lots of kid appeal

Did you know that monsters love to scribble, scribble, mix, dance, and wiggle?!

Why? Because monsters love to make new colors!

Celebrate along with the hilarious monsters in this wild and energetic picture book. Mixing and discovering color has never been so much fun! Sure to spark the imaginative artist in everyone.

Monsters Love Colors is a good companion to such favorites as Herve Tullet’s Mix It Up! and Claire Freedman and Ben Cort’s Monsters Love Underpants.

Plus check out Monsters Love School by Mike Austin!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062125941
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	02/05/2013
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 9.08(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Mike Austin is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer. He is the author-illustrator of several picture books, including Monsters Love Colors, Monsters Love School, JunkYard, Fire Engine No. 9 and Hooray for Helpers! He lives on Whidbey Island, Washington, with his wife—author-illustrator Jing Jing Tsong—and their lovable mutt, Prudence. You can visit him online at www.jingandmike.com. 

Mike Austin is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer. He is the author-illustrator of several picture books, including Monsters Love Colors, Monsters Love School, JunkYard, Fire Engine No. 9 and Hooray for Helpers! He lives on Whidbey Island, Washington, with his wife—author-illustrator Jing Jing Tsong—and their lovable mutt, Prudence. You can visit him online at www.jingandmike.com. 

Editorial Reviews

Dynamic monsters cavort and shriek and play with color. These monsters have googly eyes, big cartoon grins and unthreateningly rounded bodies. At the beginning, some are a single primary color, while others are smaller and gray. One red monster, one yellow monster and one blue monster extol the virtues of their own colors with jubilant chantability if not strict logic: "Red is the color of ROAR! and SNORE! and more! more! MORE!"; "Yellow is the color of PROWL! and HOWL! and GROWL! GROWL! GROWL!"; "Blue is the color of Scribble and Dribble and Nibble Nibble Nibble." Other verses are more hit-or-miss--for example, one page tries to rhyme "splash" with "squash," which may cause a stumble for adults reading aloud. However, all the monsters gyrate and boogie with exuberance, and their mixing of colors has exciting results. The small gray monsters become secondary colors, and one lucky little fellow who requests "SUPER tropical MEGA monster RAINBOW swirl with raspberry on TOP!" gets multicolored stripes and a rainbow parade to lead. Austin's squiggly, untamed swirls of crayon, pencil and ink and the high energy in his casual style (complete with silliness: "Hey! Don't eat your crayons, silly monster!") may coax even the bounciest little monsters to sit down for storytime--and run for the crayons and poster paper afterwards. Groovy. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews