Liao, J. (2006). The sound of colors: A journey of the imagination, New York: Little Brown and Company. (TOP TEN)

ISBN: 978-0316939928

This story is told from the point of view of a girl who is blind. The illustrations serve to depict the images conjured in her imagination based on her other senses.

Ages: Grades 5-8

Media: Watercolor

Subjects: Blindness, Disabilities, Imagination, Senses, Longing, Peace

Rating: 5Q/4P

Curricular Connections: Creative Writing/Art/Health

Literary Device: Simile (Slowly as en elephant...the train scoops me up and like a memory carries me along").

KM 6/16/09