The cutest little book for learning colours. The illustrations are darling, small kids will love this book.

This is a cute series. The wrestlers will fascinate some kids. And there is always call for books on the basics.

Beautiful illustrations and colors make this a board book that parents will enjoy sharing with children. I imagine it would be very useful for expat families living in Japan. A nice addition to the genre of color books.

Sumo wrestlers introduce toddlers to important concepts. The colorful cartoon illustrations depict the wrestlers in the ring and in other related situations, while the facing page gives an example of the shape or color. The text is in English and Japanese. The final two pages depict some of the Japanese cultural items shown throughout the book, such as the Yukata kimono, the Mikan citrus fruit, and the Geta sandals. Two previous books in the series were released in 2021, depicting numbers and opposites. This series will be especially popular in communities with Asian American populations.

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This book will be gorgeous in print! It was fun to take a look at the preview. I enjoyed the illustrations very much!

My brother knows his colors as he’s 3 years old but that did not stop him from loving this colorful book that is designed to help children learn their colors. My brother loved this book and I’m sure your children or/and siblings will love this one as well!

Sumo colors 🌟🌟🌟🍿
Part of little sumo series by Sanae Ishida

A picture book for children learning their colors, rainbows included.

The little family is absolutely adorable and the walk through the colors is captivating for smaller children especially.

Wonderful colors and simple concept great for pre readers as well.

Amazing and it’s about colors and it has beautiful pictures. - Eva age 5

Thank you NetGalley and author Sanae Ishida for a digital copy for our review.

Sumo Colors by Sanae Ishida is a picture book illustrated with adorable sumo wrestlers. The book has one word/ picture on each page with the opposite word on the page beside it. What makes this book different is that the words are in English and Japanese. I’ve seen other bilingual books, but not one that was on English and Japanese. This is a great way to introduce colors to young children while also exposing them to Japanese culture. I will be adding this to my classroom language arts library.

Just like it’s companion this is a fun way to learn tellers and Japanese at the same time. The concepts are easy and shared both in English and Japanese not only in both spoken Word but also in both written words.

Sumo colors is one of the books in the Little sumo series.
I have read Sumo opposites before this book and I think it is a cute tool for kids
to learn words, in this book different colors.
Every page is colorful with things related to japanese culture.
There are for example sakura trees and koi fishes and other things I have to guess the meaning.
Maybe it is matcha and green tea on the green page?
The only words in this book is the different colors written in english and japanese and maybe if there was a wordlist somewhere in the book it would be spot on.

Review to come closer to the release date (late August) on my blog/goodreads/etc.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

The little sumo characters are back! This time it high time to learn some colors! I am hyped! Last year I reviewed the first two books: Sumo Counting and Sumo Opposites, loving both of the books and hoping with all hope that there would be new books. After a year, they are here, and I hope that next year brings more~

In this book we are all learning about colors! We get to see a fun page for each colour with our sumo wrestlers doing something. For instance with the yellow page we see our little wrestlers check out bees, make flower crowns, and chase yellow butterflies! It is just way more fun than how books like this normally do it. By just boringly show something with that colour and be done with it. Here we just get a whole scenery fit for that colour with the characters often even wearing something of that colour (sometimes you don't see it as their lower body is hidden). I just loved that each of the sceneries had something to do with Japan. From drinking tea at a ceremony to growing sweet potatoes to drinking some yummy sake while watching sakura blossoms. I looked forward to each new page to see what colour we would get and also what kind of scenery we would see! 

Kids will love it and parents as well as there are so many things to be found in the pictures. There is plenty to talk about, to point at, to learn. 

I love that, just like the other two books, we don't just learn about colours! We also get the colour in Japanese (romaji/one of the Japanese alphabets, haven't studied for ages so no clue which one haha). For instance Orange is Orenji and オレンジ. I just loved that in the first books, and I am happy that it continues in the next ones. 

The art is still delightfully fun! 

All in all, my third book in the series and I had another great time! So happy with this series and I would highly recommend them to all, these book would make a perfect addition to bookshelves.

This book was a bit lackluster. The illustrations are cute, but the only text is the name of the color in a couple languages. There are a lot of color books out there. What makes them each special is how they add extra knowledge. Even highlighting other words like 'sakura' or 'flower' or tying them into sumo practices would add a lot more.

What a cute children's book with very nice illustrations. I like that the words are written in hiragana/katakana as well as romaji and the English equivalent. I loved Japanese when I was little, so I would have enjoyed these. Great for families trying to raise their children bilingually or for elementary libraries!

Thank you to netgalley for a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Sumo Colors was a really fun book to learn about colors and Japanese words! Simply illustrated, but very fun. I loved that each color had a different scene!

As an American living overseas in Japan, I LOVE this book, and the shape book. The colors are brilliant, and the introduction of the English words and the Japanese words is well done. I would purchase this book as a baby gift while we are here overseas, and would have loved this when I was ordering other English/Japanese toddler books to prepare our two young children for our move here. I hope the author makes more in this series!

Sumo Colors is an adorable bilingual Japanese/English illustrated book for babies and children by Sanae Ishida. Due out 6th Sept 2022 from Sasquatch imprint Little Bigfoot, it's 22 pages and will be available in boardbook format.

This is such a fun book with engaging colorful and fun illustrations full of movement and learning opportunities. Each of the illustrations covers a full page with simple inset text describing the pictures simply with the color themed paintings in both English and Japanese hiragana / IPA. The illustrations are full of subtle little extras which will provide lots of opportunity for hunt and find during reading time.

I really liked that this little book (and the others in the series) is full of Japanese vocabulary which is easy to understand. This would make a wonderful all-ages book for babies up to adults who want to learn a few rudimentary words as well as simple cultural things from Japan. The whole series is adorable and full of fun and worth collecting.

Additionally, and it has no real bearing on the book review, but the author/artist, Sanae Ishida's own website and blog are wonderfully creative and full of beautifully designed and constructed sewn clothing, watercolors, printables, papercrafts, and insight. She's a multi-talented creative soul and I am in awe of her sheer productivity.

Five stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

This is a Children's Book that I read to my twin boys. This book was so much fun to read. There was not a lot to it, but it was a big learning and fun time. Each of the pages has one color name like red then that word in Japanese, and I used google translator to hear to word in Japanese. My kids loved hearing the word in Japanese after I said it in English. Very fun and cute book. I received an ARC of this book. This review is my own honest opinion about the book like all my reviews are.

“Sumo Colors” is a great primer book for introducing colors to little ones. It also brings a beautiful cultural piece to light by tieing in a second language with the colors.

This is something I would love to have on the shelf for my toddler to encourage the color recognition and also consistently exposing her to all races in our world.

Sumo Colors is an adorable board book for toddlers to introduce them to colors. I love that it's a fresh take on a saturated board book genre. The illustrations are adorable and so fun and introduce children to a variety of colors, objects, and aspects of Japanese culture. It includes English and Japanese words. This would make a fun gift!

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC. All thoughts are my own.

A cute book to teach kids colors using Sumo wrestlers. Very beautiful illustrations and Japanese characters accompany each color. There aren't a lot of words (just the colors and characters), so if you want something more sentence based, this is not it. However, very cute!