There are two reasons why I like this book. First, David McKee does an excellent job with illustrations. The illustrations of the book enhance the poems. Each page has multiple poems about the same color. The illustrations support and enhance the color. For example, when the poems are about the color yellow, the page is bright yellow containing many different illustrations that support each poem and the color yellow. For example, lemon trees and yellow leaves. The pages also go through each shade of the color, which becomes intriguing when flipping the page. Second, I like this book because of the engaging writing. Each poem is engaging and extremely imaginative. For example, "There once was a cowardly fellow who wobbled, when challenged, like jello. Though his hair hadn't grayed from being afraid. His skin had gone cadmium yellow." When reading this poem, I can imagine jello, gray hair, and yellow skin. The big idea of this book is to describe colors and different shades of colors to readers. ( )

Out of the Blue is filled with poems categorized by color. Some are specifically about color, some are things that are that color, some are metaphors or sayings but they all relate back to a certain color. I like the how there are poems of all kinds and variety but still have a string of relation to each other. This can help children understand how to categorize something and why things belong together in a group.
This would be a fun book to begin English class with. Each beginning to a lesson just read one of the poems from one of the colors to bring them together, draw their attention, and expand their ideas of poetry. I would do a lesson on poetry eventually after reading many from this book and then makes the write their own poems. Possibly do an acrostic poem with the colors of the rainbow, "ROYGBIV". ( )

This is an enjoyable book of poems. It's educational in the way it takes colors and tells a story while incorporating facts and tales within the sequence. Students will learn about varied subjects. I would use this book to have students first identify their favorite color, then choose a poem from that group to elaborate more on the subject by writing their own poems. ( )