Otoshi really strives to show, in very basic terms, how much better the world can be without bullying in it. While recommended for younger children, this is a book that everyone could learn from. The illustrations are a clear-cut highlight to the straightforward vocabulary, and complement the words properly, without being overpowering. Otoshi tells this important lesson beautifully through basic watercolor illustrations and simple yet powerful text. Just like Otoshi’s simple conclusion to her tale, we realize “Sometimes it just takes one”. As all the colors turn into strong numbers and stand up to ‘Red’, they let ‘Red’ know that he can count too, by not being a bully but by being a friend. Along comes the bold, funny, number ‘1’ who tells the colors it is okay to stand up and say NO when they are bullied. The color ‘Blue’ is constantly put down by ‘Red’, and while the colors ‘Yellow’, ‘Green’, ‘Purple’, and ‘Orange’ do not agree with ‘Red’, they are afraid to stand up to him. 2- In this cleverly done book, Otoshi effectively utilizes colors and numbers to portray bullying and its effects. This earlier book is even more basic (re counting) than Zero but the books can be read in either order. My favorite page was a 2 page spread on blue’s activities, as they were very peaceful to view and contemplate. The art is made up of colored numbers and circles and similar shapes, but it’s fun and colorful and attractive. So, this can be used as a very beginning counting book, as a discussion starter about bullying or about getting along and collaborating with one another, and definitely about standing up for oneself and others, and though it works as an art book only for children still learning their colors, the colors are fun. I found myself smiling at almost every page. The overt messages of “everyone counts” and “sometimes it just takes one” to stop bullying actually make this book a lot of fun. Each color becomes a number.īut, there is a story, of red who bullies blue and the other colors too, and how it takes a number, One, to get the bullying to stop and to help all the colors get along together and to count. The number 1 is 1.īut, this is another wonderful counting book, although the numbers go from only 1 to 7. They end up making up numbers 2 through 7. The only colors covered a red, blue, yellow, green orange, purple. but I didn’t have a significant problem with that. The way this tale goes, the colors are stereotypical: red = hot, angry and blue = cool, yellow = sunny, etc. A bit disappointing because I thought there would be some color mixing education: blue + yellow = green, etc. I recently read Zero and realized that this book by the same author had been published first.
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