A Color Game for Chester Raccoon
Audrey Penn

Tanglewood Press
March 2012 / ISBN 1933718587
Fiction-children ages 2 and up
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Reviewed by Willie Elliott

Audrey Penn's delightful picture book A Color Game for Chester Raccoon is a simple tale about Chester as he observes the animals and objects in his surroundings, but the story teaches young readers ages two and up the basic colors.

As the child reads (or has the story read to him/her) the colors are introduced and reinforced by the color of the animal or object being observed.

The colors covered include white, blue, yellow, orange, brown, black, and red. Thus after a few reading, the child will be on his/her way to knowing the basic colors.

The story could not be told without the colorful (pun not intended) illustrations of Barbara L. Gibson.

The Board book's durable hardbacks will be able to withstand the treatment that young readers will give to the book.