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jbolwerk8's review against another edition
2.0
A little girl finds a blue book on the sidewalk in a rather blah life and takes it home to read. Once she opens it, she is introduced to this world of brilliant color with a blue horse, and it transports her mind to this beautiful and happy place. This wordless picture book was a little confusing and too repetitive for me in the middle with the colorful pages, but ultimately, I like the message it presents.
mdodds11's review against another edition
3.0
Pretty illustrations, but I don't know if a child would get it...
crystal_reading's review against another edition
This book shows how a book can change lives. It also seems to be a pretty strong nod to Franz Marc, Kandinsky and other members of Der Blaue Reiter group/The Blue Rider. They had a belief in the power or spiritual aspect of art and they played with color - like with a blue horse or yellow cow. This would be a great book to pair with Eric Carle's The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse.
kroscher's review against another edition
5.0
gr8 read for the kiddos. the beginning rlly captures the malaise of an isolating, neoliberal hellscape.
agudenburr's review against another edition
3.0
A wordless picture book about a girl's adventures while reading about a blue horse. Best for one-on-one enjoyment.
katieckb's review against another edition
2.0
While this book is bright and colourful and fun, its hard to make heads or tails of a few of the pages. There are no words in this book. From the pictures, I gather it is the story of a young girl who lives in a back and white and dreary world. One day, she finds a book on the street. She brings it home and it invites colour into her world. There are a few pages though where I had no idea what they were trying to convey.
maidmarianlib's review against another edition
3.0
Very unique illustrations that are needed to really tell the story.
tashrow's review
4.0
This wordless picture book tells the story of a little girl who discovers a blue book on the ground. She lives in a bustling gray city filled with people moving in all directions. Taking the book home, she reads it and the blue horse on the pages inspires her. Soon the blue horse is flying above the city and then moving to the countryside where the art becomes more geometric and even more colorful. Out of that burst of color, the girl emerges riding the blue horse. Then we are back in her bedroom where her dreams and her room are filled with color.
Valerio tells the story of how art can inspire and create wonder and a space to dream. The illustrations are done in mixed media, combining paintings with paper collage. The edges become more frayed as the art from the book takes over the page. The movement to a more abstract type of illustration is particularly effective, bursting across the page. A great picture book to share with art classes who will be inspired themselves. Appropriate for ages 4-7.
Valerio tells the story of how art can inspire and create wonder and a space to dream. The illustrations are done in mixed media, combining paintings with paper collage. The edges become more frayed as the art from the book takes over the page. The movement to a more abstract type of illustration is particularly effective, bursting across the page. A great picture book to share with art classes who will be inspired themselves. Appropriate for ages 4-7.
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