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Blue : a history of the color as deep as the sea and as wide as the sky / by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond ; illustrated by Daniel Minter.

Brew-Hammond, Nana Ekua, (author.). Minter, Daniel, (illustrator.).

Summary:

"For centuries, blue powders and dyes were some of the most sought-after materials in the world. Ancient Afghan painters ground mass quantities of sapphire rocks to use for their paints, while snails were harvested in Eurasia for the tiny amounts of blue that their bodies would release. And then there was indigo, which was so valuable that American plantations grew it as a cash crop on the backs of African slaves. It wasn't until 1905, when Adolf von Baeyer created a chemical blue dye, that blue could be used for anything and everything--most notably that uniform of workers everywhere, blue jeans"--Amazon.

Record details

ISBN: 9781984894366
ISBN: 1984894366
ISBN: 9781984894373
ISBN: 1984894374
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

General Note:	Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. Award book
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Target Audience Note:	4-8 years AD1060L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR LG 5.6 0.5 520790.
Awards Note:	Dogwood Readers Award nominee 2023