The book teaches children to look closely at the world around them and discover the unexpected. Overall, "One Patch of Blue" is a beautiful and engaging book.

One Patch of Blue (Board Book)
by Marthe Jocelyn
A young book without print to help trace and follow a square through various artwork pieces, showing recognition, understanding of texture, and context. Its a great early reader, or English as a second language reader because teachers can use it to teach many lessons. You can use the art work to explain English language concepts, permanence of objects, color, texture, shape, an have them recognize the square in many different places and ways.

I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a wordless book. It's hard for me to review those because I enjoy the words of stories so much. I don't know if kids will really understand this book. I get the concept of this, but I just don't know how kids will feel.

I would have been more impressed if the book had some touch and feel elements to it. Everyone I showed the book to felt the same way. I was looking for sensory books and thought this one might be one- and it should have been! Sorry. I was disappointed.

A little too abstract even for young readers. The pictures don't seem cohesive but random and confusing.

This is a lovely little book that will help the kids develop visual acuity. The illustrations are simple, with each one having the same patch of blue. It's a great book to use to introduce little kids to the "I Spy" sorts of books.

Like One Yellow Ribbon , this book is nothing but a collection of pictures of what you could do with a blue patch of denim. It could be a window, an aquarium, or even a blanket patch. This book could really use some words. The pictures are nice, but that’s all it is, a collection of pictures, instead of a story.

This is a completely word less picture book. It shows many ways in which a blue patch can be seen in everyday things.

The illustrations were vibrant. The pictures were everyday things and easily identified by a child. The blue patch was evident on the pages and would be fun for a young child to identify.

Like other reviewers, I wish that it would have contained some words. It need not be many. Just a few would take this book to a higher level.

As with the author’s other book, One Yellow Ribbon, this would be fun to read with babies and toddlers. Beyond that it will be hard to maintain a child’s interest.


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This fun wordless board book is a search-and-find delight for wee ones. A patch of rogue denim escapes from a pair of pants and has many adventures that readers can join in on.

The venturous swatch morphs into a a robot, a fish tank, a snowman's hat, a dog tag, a Ferris wheel, a recycling bin and best all... a book cover (in my humble opinion), just to name a few.

The creative author uses her wonderful paper collage illustrations and her wordless book to encourage kid's to use their seeking skills and their imaginations. I highly recommend this book.

This is a beautiful wordless book for toddlers. My two year old granddaughter and I shared this one and she liked it. We had to find the blue patch on each page, then talk about what it was. Of course, I did most of the talking. The illustrations are great, they show texture which helped her to identify certain things such as sand. I loved the picture depicting the houses and the flowers, we spent a long time on that page. The publisher, Orca Book Publishers, generously provided me with this book to read. The rating, ideas and opinions are my own.

This is a good book to use with teaching young children the color blue. There are illustrations showing denium blue throughout the book. You can even use it as a seek and find for the young ones. I think the author came up with a very unique picture book and the children will love looking at all the shapes and denium texture. I recommend this book for 2-4 yr. olds.
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Wordless board books are good when there is a clear purpose. I can see that this book is there to show the reader the imaginative ways a simple patch can be used, the intention is lost when it's a digital copy. It's clearly meant to be a textual book so that child can touch the denim as it goes on a journey through various stages. It's just not the best wordless board book I've seen.

What an amazing wordless book. The illustrations are fabulous and seem to jump off the page. Not only does this book address the concept of color (blue) but it also offers readers an imaginative perspective of what blue can be. Excellent!

I found this to be a very sweet board book for toddlers. The patch of blue from the child's jeans is found in a series of colorful and appealing illustrations. For example, it becomes part of a sign, a ferris wheel, a stained glass window etc. This is a charming, wordless picture book.

Huh. I'm not really sure what to say about One Patch of Blue. I've been absolutely loving the wordless picture books I've been reading this year, but I was confused by the intended premise of this one in the beginning. The first couple of pages had me thinking perhaps it was meant to be a texture book. As the book progresses, though, it becomes clear that is not the case.

I think very small children (under 3) might enjoy spotting the patch of blue on each page. I'm sure for some it may even become a comfortable favourite. As an adult, I wasn't all that charmed. I felt rather like I was visiting someone and somehow got myself stuck being obligated to page through their scrapbooks.

A middle of the road rating for this one from me -- it wasn't terrible, but I didn't love it. 3 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Orca Book Publishers for providing me with a DRC of this book.