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They Say Blue

by Jillian Tamaki

Color depends on what we see

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Award winner

    The source describes They Say Blue as a winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Award.

  • Author recognition

    Caldecott Honor recipient

    The source identifies Jillian Tamaki as a Caldecott Honor winner. This is an honor, not a Medal win.

AlbakiReads Editorial

Color depends on what we see

A young girl notices the colors around her, comparing familiar sights with what she has been told about them. Water in her hands challenges the label “blue,” while a whale remains an open question because she has never seen one. Across a day or a year, the book connects color concepts with the limits of direct experience, leaving room for observation and imagination to sit side by side. Its board-book format and focus on everyday visual discoveries make perspective part of the exploration, not just a lesson in naming colors.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Toddlers and preschoolers beginning to explore color words
  • Adults sharing picture books about observation and perspective with young children

Themes

ColorsPoint of viewObservationImagination and the unknown

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Book overview

Caldecott Honor winner Jillian Tamaki's board book They Say Blue is a playful, poetic exploration of color and point of view.

A Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Award Winner

In captivating paintings full of movement and transformation, we follow a young girl through a year or a day as she examines the colors in the world around her. Egg yolks are sunny orange as expected, yet water cupped in her hands isn't blue like they say. But maybe a blue whale is blue. She doesn't know; she hasn't seen one.

Playful and philosophical, They Say Blue is a book about color as well as perspective, about the things we can see and the things we can only wonder at.
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