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Love Is My Favorite Color: 01/14/24

Love Is My Favorite Color

Love Is My Favorite Color by Nina Laden and Melissa Castrillón (Illustrator) (2024) is their fourth collaboration on a picture book. This one, based around a poem Laden wrote in 2018, is brightly optimistic both in tone and hue.

The poem is laid out in an almost call and response fashion. The narrator will make a statement: love is my favorite color. A second line follows as explanation or contemplation: I love every color I see.

The lines are paired with one of Melissa Castrillón's delightful illustrations. The initial one presents colors in arrangements that I personally love to use (purple and orange, pink and green) but are often frowned upon in more traditional color theory discussions.

Further into the poem the concepts become both more abstract and more revolutionary. They are calls for action to be more tolerant, more caring, more open minded, more in tune with the beauty and variety of life.

Nina Laden has put together a blog post explaining the process of how this book came to be. She also includes a beautiful photo of the cover art under the dust jacket. I read an ebook version but I might have to get a physical copy just for the sheer artistry of it.

Five stars

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