"Marc Chagall loved to listen to the scriptures being read out loud. When he was four years old he started to learn Hebrew at his religion classes and on the Sabbath he would go to the synagogue. Many years later the painter saw for himself the places described in the scriptures when he travelled to the Palestine - the Holy Land - with his wife, Bella, and their daughter Ida. For Chagall, God was to be found in all people and things and so he mixed the stories in the scriptures with the everyday world which we can see around us - just like he mixed the colours on his palette. What Colour is Paradise is an imaginatively written book for children, which takes a close look at a number of Chagall's fascinating paintings including The Creation of Mankind, Paradise and Noah's Arch."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved