Every Color

PreS-Gr 1—The snowy white world of the Far North has an unhappy resident—Bear, a polar bear longing for color and deeply depressed at the lack of it in his icy surroundings. With the help of a passing seagull, a young artist and sailor comes to the rescue with a boat tour to show Bear the colors of the world: "They [travel] beyond distant shores, up rivers and down," in the air and on water. Mixed-media digital collage art accentuates the color against the grays and white of the North Sea. Beginning with highlighted landmarks of Europe and ending with the wonders of the ocean depths and monuments of the Americas, the book presents the young artist's small pen and watercolor paintings in a briefly worded travelogue that follows Bear and friend. Slowly changing hues from the artist's palette—red, yellow, green, blue, and purple—highlight each drawing, images and sites that range across all continents and oceans and end with Bear's arrival home. The "aurora polaris" finally displays the rainbow of colors previously missed but that have always been a part of his Arctic world.