Print/braille edition
In contracted braille.
Ages 8-13
"I was surprised and flattered then, and continue to be, by the large audience - including the blind - who still write to me."
- Author Mary O'Neill
Hailstones and Halibut Bones is a unique
book about colors that can be heard, touched,
and smelled. Originally published in 1961, it has
become a classic, at twice the length of most
children's books.
O'Neill explores 12 different colors in 12 poems.
Each series of poems relates to a color, "What Is
Green," "What Is Gold... Red... Blue," and so forth.
Blue is a heron, a sapphire ring,
You can smell blue in many a thing:
Gentian and larkspur, Forget-me-nots, too.
And if you listen, you can hear blue
In wind over water....
After more than twenty-five years, the poems, like colors, still sing. Kudos to Doubleday for letting Hailstones continue to live.
- School Library Journal
An exploration in imaginative, evocative verses of the world of color and its relationship to the other senses.
-The New York Times Book Review
Excellent for young and old alike. Mrs. O'Neill was the first person to describe color to those who cannot see, and for those who are sighted she added a dimension to our appreciation of color. I will never look at purple the same again.
- Amazon.com reader
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