Review Source: The Midwest Book Review
Title: Blue as a Blueberry
Author: Dingles, Molly
Blue as a Blueberry is the latest installment in the Community of Color series for preschoolers, a set of easy-reader picture-books entertainingly written by Molly Dingles and wonderfully illustrated by Walter Velez, and which center about a color, encouraging children to look around and see and appreciate the color in their world. A simple and charming book illustrated in full color, and cleverly designed to help children sharpen their powers of observation, develop reading readiness skills, as well as how people, places, and things combine to form a community, Blue As A Blueberry is particularly appropriate and recommended to boys and girls just learning to read their first words, and identify colors on their own. Others books in the series include Red as Fire Truck, Yellow As A Lemon, and Green As A Frog.


Review Source: Tri State Young Adult Book Review Committee
Title: Blue as a Blueberry
Author: Dingles, Molly
Rating for this Book: VG
Quality: Excellent (Superior quality)
Very Good (Outstanding)
Good (Better than most)
Average (Acceptable without serious defect)
Marginal
Summary: Covers the world of color perception and what in a child's community is that color.
Critical Annotation: This wonderful series will be great for young children to learn about colors and what in the community reflects those colors. The books are simple, colorful, and will be easy for children as young as 2 to finish the sentences. The print is very large with lovely full color illustrations on each page which are often quite humorous. One concept about color is taught on each page. The children in the illustrations are multiethnic and the illustrations cover many things in the community that represent that color. There is a teaching guide at the conclusion as well as a game that makes a good culminating activity. There are discussion questions as well as reviews of previously covered concepts. This series with its modern outlook with community connections and diverse populations will be excellent for teaching the concept of color.
Reviewer: Jackson (2), Melva