First, this should not be considered a children's book, unless you don't want your children to learn the proper French words and terms presented. Second, the artwork depicts the models as barely more than skeletons- not a healthy body image for anyone, much less children. Having said that, I'm giving two stars for the artwork; it's not a style I particularly care for, but looked at as fashion art, it's not bad. This is an adult fashion illustration book made to look like a children's book, and should be taken as such.

When I first saw that this book was about learning colors in French, I was super excited! I am a native French speaker and it always interesting to see how languages are taught in different ways. What a chock and what a surprise when I opened this book.

1. - The illustrations only depict extremely skinny white women as a fashion models. There's absolutely no diversity.
2. - The french-english translations are full of mistakes. "Multicolors" should be spelled "multicouleurs" in French (and not multi colour) ; "Polka Dots" should be "à pois" or "à pois Polka" (and not polka dots).
3. - The size of the English word versus the french word is just ridiculous. The English word is bold and easy to read, while the French word is tiny, in italic and in parenthesis. There is no way it can be used as a learning tool.
4 - On each specific color-page, there are many different colors, and the portrayed color is not always clear to me.

In the end, I feel like it is a book about displaying a very talented fashion designer's art, but not at all a learning book for kids.

This book is awful. It depicts women as stick thin vacant looking morons with hairy noses and ears too high on their heads their legs are so thin they are bending under their weight of the cloths that hang on them. Not the image of women I want my children to admire or emulate.
To say it teaches children and adults colours and pattern in French is a joke. Writing Violet in bold letters and then (violet) beneath teaches nothing about language.
I give it one star on.y because it won’t let me give it no stars at all.

Colors de la Runway by author Clarence Ruth is a fun and cute way to learn colors and pattern designs.
Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for an arc copy of Colors de la Runway in exchange for an honest review.