Great Blueness and Other Predicaments (1968) by Arnold Lobel

Authors

Gareth B. Matthews, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Description

Long ago, there was no color in the world. It was the time of The Great Greyness. Down in the cellar of his house a Wizard mixed up something in a pot and used it to paint the thatched roof of his house. “I call it blue,” he told his neighbors, who begged him to share it. Soon the whole world was blue. It became the time of The Great Blueness. Unfortunately, having blueness everywhere made people sad. So, the Wizard went back down into his cellar and came out with something new .... Philosophy is colorful! Plenty of philosophers and scientists have told us that colors are not real. Others have made puzzles out of logical statements about color. And what does it mean that some colors made up of others?

Publication Date

1999

Publisher

Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children

City

Montclair

Keywords

color, logical statements, perception, science

Disciplines

Early Childhood Education | Education | Philosophy

Comments

This review was originally published inThinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 14(4): 1, 1999.

Recommended Citation

Matthews, Gareth B., "Great Blueness and Other Predicaments (1968) by Arnold Lobel" (1999). Picture Books. 54.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_thinkingstories_picturebooks/54