The Black Book of Colors

Living with the use of one's eyes can make imagining blindness difficult, but this innovative book invites readers to imagine living without sight through amazing illustrations done with raised lines and descriptions of colors based on imagery. Braille letters accompany the illustrations and a full Braille alphabet offers sighted readers help reading along with their fingers. This extraordinary title gives young readers the ability to experience the world in a new way.

Raised black line drawings on black paper, which can be deciphered by touch, accompany a beautifully written text describing colors through imagery. The text is translated into braille (translation by Elisa Amado), so that sighted readers can begin to imagine what it is like to read by touch.

The Black Book of Colors was first published in Mexico. It won the New Horizons prize at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in 2007 and has since been published around the world and universally praised for its unique and innovative approach. [Menena Cottin, Rosana Farķa; (2008) 24 pages; hard cover; Ages 5-10 years]