What a cute book that introduced different creatures and the colors they bring. It speaks on the idea that we are better together and together we can create something beautiful. It also spoke brilliant on first day excitement and jitters. My daughter loved this book, all the colors, as well as the use of numbers. The pictures in this book were also really well done and brought it all together.

Thank you to Netgalley and this team for allowing me to read an advanced copy. I will definitely be purchasing this to read in our head start classrooms to relieve first day jitters.

Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for the eARC! This is a cute colors book for toddlers and preschoolers! Preschoolers will be able to relate to going to school like all the animals in the book. I like the simple illustrations that highlight the color being mentioned with each animal.

This book was cute. The illustrations were cute but there also was not much to them, my kids were a little confused about a bunch of bugs going to school and joined by a cat and a squirrel. It felt like it just didnt fit. I would have maybe added a praying mantis or some other bugs that are just as interesting.

Thank you NetGalley, Raven Howell, Carina Povarchik and Black Rose Writing for allowing me to review.

I absolutely loved everything about this book! The illustrations are adorable. It covers so many of the things. Children are nervous about before the first day of school and gives them a sense of comfort for what is gonna happen when they get there. I love the different animals And their experiences. This book is a very quick read, but so much fun!

This was such a sweet book. Loved how it not only teaches colors to kids but also teaches color theory and how colors mix to create new. Cute short little book

A Colorful Beginning is a greatly illustrated picture book about various animals and insects preparing for their very first day of school, and I could not have adored it more. I enjoyed each animal's little section of getting ready for school, especially the squirrel with the apples. Both the vocabulary and storyline are age appropriate, and the onomatopoeia will be sure to draw young readers in. I can't recommend this book enough, especially for children who are about to start school!

A Colorful Beginning is a fun picture book that introduces colors (and along the way a few other things like counting as well). I liked the aesthetic choice to have the illustrations be somewhat minimal (no backgrounds/background color) until the little animals get to school, meet their teacher, and start their art assignment. However, the two parts of the book did feel a bit disjointed because the first half seemed simpler and had less text on each page compared to the later pages. I do think this works as a nice first day of school book and I think a teacher could use this on the first day of school and tie it in with a first day art activity (like the teacher in the book).

This is such a cute read. The illustrations were eye catching, and I think it would be a great choice for elementary age kids. Since it takes place on the first day of school, it would be perfect to read to kids on, or before, the first day of school!

Thanks to NetGalley for the exposure to this book! This book is all about colors and animals on their first day of school. The animals are fun and each is associated with a different color. Once at school, they use their colors to make even more colors with their classmates. It was fun and cute and kept my 3yo’s attention.

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I think this book would be great to incorporate over the summer months leading up to starting school. It addresses feeling nervous, making friends while having some education woven into the story. I would imagine the repetition and familiarity leading up to the weekend before starting school would be of support.

The illustration of the animals and corresponding colors are incorporated with the concept of mixing colors together to create new ones.

I received a free copy of this book from Raven Howell, Carina Povarchik and Black Rose Writing. I am voluntarily leaving a review. All opinions are my own.

Absolutely loved this book. I have a 2.5 year old and this is a step up from basic board book staples like brown bear brown bear and mouse paint! This had so many great adjectives and adverbs that you don’t typically see! can’t wait to purchase and read to her.

The first day of school can be a frightful thing indeed. We all remember the various feelings that we had when it was the morning of the first day. In this story, we get to follow how the different animal students get ready for their school day. I particularly like how the book uses repetition to instill in the reader how getting ready can take many forms.
This books hits many notes that are vital to early readers. As the students are getting ready, we see cause and effect. Later on we get to see how working together makes everyone happy.
I would definitely recommend this book to teachers of primary grades as well as parents with kiddos that are nervous or unsure about school.

I would like to express my gratitude to Raven Howell, Carina Polvarchik, Black Rose Writing, and Netgalley for the opportunity to read the Digital Reader Copy of this text. Here is my brief review.

This was a lovely board book depicting an array of creatures rushing off for their first day of school. On the one hand, it would have been good to see them up in good time and heading off to their lessons, but reframed, I came to see the animals as being excited for their first day.

I appreciated how the name of the color was typed in the color itself. I also liked that there were several creatures named, which provided a secondary learning aspect but also highlighted that a class is made up of unique individuals. The book went a step further with its learning by also demonstrating the result of compromising/mixing colors.

On the surface, this is such a simple text with extremely bland, simplistic picture on stark white pages that limits the opportunity for distraction. However, looking a little deeper, the subtle messages are apparent. The book delivers the message that school is exciting and nothing to fear. It provides a positive outlook about making friends and getting along well with everyone. By the end of the book, the pictures are fuller, almost like the book is saying that as an individual you are not quite as fulfilled but as a group, you are complete.

A great book for preschoolers gearing up for their first day that gives them some useful information for their knowledge bank from the outset.

A lesson and narrative quite decently combine here, as copious animals are all bound for school on the first day of the new year. We meet them all, and see their different colours – for not only are we looking at, for example, a yellow butterfly, but we're reading the word 'yellow' – in a yellow-coloured font. And despite many doubts, queries and quibbles about the new school vibe, all the animals get along perfectly well with each other by, well, by mixing paint colours together.

This then is decently educational about the colours, but offers a little bit of reassurance about the next few years of school life, too. I wasn't a huge fan of every critter's second little paragraph, with its poetic take on how the beast is moving to school (and the snail never got one in my copy, anyway), but the rest was perfectly OK. It's no world-changer, but it's no harm to anyone, either, and four stars is close enough to the real deal to be the final verdict.

The first day of school in color, this book takes us through each animal who is getting ready for school and how they spend their first day.

A lovely story that follows the colorful critters, as they navigate their first-day jitters!
Carina Povarchik has used simple, yet whimsical illustrations that thankfully do not distract from the narrative or the many learning opportunities available in this book. My early reader enjoyed that they could easily read sections of this story, and my younger children enjoyed the creatures and the colorful theme. This is a lovely addition for any child before their first day of school (or beginning somewhere new).

Many thanks to Black Rose Writing for the digital review copy, via NetGalley. This review is voluntary, and all opinions are my own.

The animals are starting school and wonder if they will be liked and what they will find out as the day begins in this delightfully whimsical story.
The illustrations by artist Carina Povarchik are simple, colorful, and expressive.
Well suited for reading WITH someone of any age including ESL, and great for gifting to everyone, but especially to a school, doctor's office, or your local public library!
I requested and received a temporary uncorrected efile on PDF from the author and BooksGoSocial via NetGalley. Thank you!
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sweet little tome that introduces colors, school, and even diversity mixed in with a bit of an art lesson. Very cute, simple drawings.

I would recommend this picture book to children aged 5-8. It is good for learning new words such as the colours and animals. I really liked the cartoon pictures that the author has included. I also liked the main theme of the book, including the words. I like the references to songs from my childhood. I think its important that children learn those songs as well as colours and animal names.

Book Review by Erica Jones @ Climb the Stacks

A Colorful Beginning by Raven Howell, illustrated by Carina Povarchik
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A Colorful Beginning is a beautiful picture book that is set in a school setting. The main idea and plot was thoughtfully planned and executed with ease. I throughly enjoyed the premise, it was done in a way that was encouraging the love of art from everyone. Brilliant! I highly recommend this picture book to everyone!

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

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