Marie Harris

The Girl Who Heard Colors

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This eye-opening picture book introduces readers to their five senses and to synesthesia—a condition in which one sense triggers another. For some people, sounds or tastes have colors. And for others, numbers and letters do. Many famous artists have been synesthetes, including Tori Amos, Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix, Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, John Mayer, Mozart, and Degas.Imagine that when you hear a bell you see silver or when a dog barks you see red. That's what it's like for Jillian—when she hears sounds she sees colors. At first the kids at school make fun of Jillian. Jillian worries about being different until her music teach… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Brantley-Newton, Vanessa

ISBN: 978-0-399-25643-1
EAN: 9780399256431
Produktnummer: 14452684
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 32 S.
Masse: H28.8 cm x B21.5 cm x D1.7 cm 368 g
Gewicht: 368
Sonstiges: Ab 3 - 5 J.

Über den Autor

Marie Harris (marieharris.com) is the author of G Is for Granite: A New Hampshire Alphabet and Primary Numbers: A New Hampshire Number Book, as well as four books of poetry. She lives in the woods of Barrington, New Hampshire, where she likes to walk and identify birds and go swimming in the Isinglass River. Vanessa Brantley-Newton (oohlaladesignstudio.blogspot.com) has illustrated several picture books, including One Love by Bob Marley and Let Freedom Sing (which she also wrote). When Vanessa isn’t illustrating a book, she is crafting and cooking and singing! She also hears color. When she says “hello,” she sees the rainbow, and when children giggle, she sees bright orange and pink! She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.