![]() ![]() Since its original publication in 1978, the fantastic colors, amazing detail, and sweeping scope. The Rainbow is reborn and lifted up the flowers that had saved it, transforming them “into glittering dragonflies and butterflies and splendidly plumed birds”. Buy a cheap copy of The Rainbow Goblins book by Ul De Rico. The flowers drain the colors of the Rainbow into their petals, the goblins become tangled in their own lassos, then drown in a deluge of colors. But the roots of flowers above them strain to hear their plans. ![]() They hatch a plan to travel to where the rainbows are born. They prowl the valleys and suck the colors out of rainbows. Each goblin lives on the color of his name, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. The colors are marvelous, there are rocks glowing in the setting sun, water illuminated with light, magic sunsets saturating the world with color, stars twinkling in a deep blue sky, beautiful birds, and a rainbow of course. The paintings have a unique vivid look, and also feel very magical and otherworldly. The pictures are oil-on-oak panel paintings. She used the book to introduce lessons in color. I was first introduced to Ul de Rico’s The Rainbow Goblins by an art teacher with a masters degree in gifted education. It’s a fairy tale where good triumphs greediness, but it’s message is subtle. ![]() But I wouldn’t show it to young children. I’ve been trying to figure out how to describe it. I had The Rainbow Goblins book on my desk for several weeks now. ![]()
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