Blue, a history of the color as deep as the sea and as wide as the sky, by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond ; illustrated by Daniel Minter
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Blue, a history of the color as deep as the sea and as wide as the sky, by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond ; illustrated by Daniel Minter
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Intended audience
Ages: 4-8Grades: PreS-3
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Blue
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1295998530
Responsibility statement
by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond ; illustrated by Daniel Minter
Sub title
a history of the color as deep as the sea and as wide as the sky
Summary
This picture book follows one color's journey throughout history -- from ancient Afghan painters to 1905, when a chemical blue dye was created -- and around the world, as it becomes the blue we know today"For centuries, blue powders and dyes were some of the most sought-after materials in the world. Ancient Afghan painters ground mass quantities of sapphire rocks to use for their paints, while snails were harvested in Eurasia for the tiny amounts of blue that their bodies would release. And then there was indigo, which was so valuable that American plantations grew it as a cash crop on the backs of African slaves. It wasn't until 1905, when Adolf von Baeyer created a chemical blue dye, that blue could be used for anything and everything--most notably that uniform of workers everywhere, blue jeans"--Amazon
Target audience
primary
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- Pigments -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Pigments -- Juvenile literature
- Color
- Blue -- Juvenile literature
- Color -- Juvenile literature
- Creative nonfiction
- Essais fictionnels
- Livres d'images
- picture books
- Dyes and dyeing
- Dyes and dyeing -- Juvenile literature
- Informational works
- Picture books
- Couleur -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Pigments
- Illustrated works
- Blue
- Bleu -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- picture books
- Documents d'information
Content
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- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor2
- Creator1
- Genre8
- Subject20
- Pigments -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Pigments -- Juvenile literature
- Color
- Blue -- Juvenile literature
- Color -- Juvenile literature
- Creative nonfiction
- Essais fictionnels
- Livres d'images
- picture books
- Dyes and dyeing
- Dyes and dyeing -- Juvenile literature
- Informational works
- Picture books
- Couleur -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Pigments
- Illustrated works
- Blue
- Bleu -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- picture books
- Documents d'information
- Content2
- Author1
- Illustrator1
- Publisher1
- Mapped to1