Find Good Luck Chestnut: And Other Lucky Colors Of The World Written By Linda Gruenberg Document

illustrated, this book introduces you to the different hues and patterns that characterize horses, While portraying children engrossed in their play, Linda skilfully blends colours with simple rhymes to create an effect that is both sensitive and endearing.
There's Chestnut, Dapples, Palomino, Roan and many more, but what makes it particularly interesting for a child to follow and remember, are the little associations that connect each horse with a story.


Appaloosas look like they have a blanket with spots covering their backs, and as the author intricately connects words together to describe this, one can see it reflected in the watercolour alongside, two little boys sitting on top of a horse with a white spotted rump.
Socks are, as the name suggests, horses with white on their legs till the joints and this is accompanied by a wonderful depiction of four legs wearing imaginary socks.
Words tumble forth page after page like unstoppable giggles, there is a sense of blissful happiness in the phrases that is almost contagious.
Diversely represented, one can find children of all kinds of colours and ethnicities here, smiling and laughing with joy.


The play of light and shadow through the leaves, or a child holding a horse's mane softly caressing, or the tiny tummy peeking underneath the shirt of a girl as she lies comfortably horseback, shows the amount of love and tenderness that has gone behind the making of this book.
If you are a stranger to horses like me, you would feel a yearning to be among these animals, wishing to enjoy their company like these carefree children.
But if you happen to be someone who grew up with animals, this is still bound to make you feel nostalgic.
Recommended for everyone, especially for parents who enjoy reading aloud to their children,

Note: Obtained as ARC on Reedsy Discovery Good Luck Chestnut is a beautifully illustrated picture book paired with a silly rhyming poem that celebrates the diversity of the horses and children featured within its pages.


A full review will follow,
This book is lovely, vibrant, happy, and masterfully illustrated, I love the new horse related vocab words that have definitions in the back, The art is simply charming, It also has a warm message of acceptance just what we all need right now! Good Luck Chestnut: And Other Lucky Colors of the World is a delight to read, look at, and share.
Delightfully dappled with cleverly combined words, the phrases all enhance the pictures, The book features horses, as one might guess, but also, features children! Smiling faces fill every page.


There is a bit of a clever find it built into the pages, as certain items are mentioned within the sentences that can be located in the pictures.
An unexpected item is often to be found decorating a corner or a tshirt in the picture.
However, the book is a collection of these delightful pages and does not build an actual story.
Children

wont miss that if they take the time to enjoy each page and search out all of those subtle connections.


Good Luck Chestnut: And Other Lucky Colors of the World is a sheer delight and deserves every one of itsstars.
Good Luck Chestnut is a picture book full of colorful horses and colorful kids, In theory, the watercolor paintings illustrate horse colors, but in practice, they also capture the way children use horses as jungle gyms and playgrounds.
The children sit backwards, hop on by leapfrogging, bellyflop off the horse into water, everything but sit forward in a saddle, ridinglesson proper.
The names of horse colors are embedded in the text, while the various nationalities of the children visually round out the books concept.
Any child should find themselves somewhere in the illustrations, This book is just yearning to be read aloud, The whole thing is a playground of rollicking slant rhymes hurtling itself toward the last simple message that every child deserves to hear.
Childrens book author and artist Linda Gruenberg is a horse lover at heart, She has done every possible thing you can do with horses, including having them mow the lawn, drive single and double, rake the hay field with a horse drawn rake, swim, jump logs and ditches, vault, stand in the saddle to pick applesyou get the point.
Its only fitting that her lifelong passion led her to write Hummer, a heartwarming middle grade novel about a forlorn girl whose life is changed by an Arabian horse and its owner.
As Linda conveys, if you have horses, neighbor kids eventually show up, and she loves getting a child up on a horse and seeing their eyes light up.
She even formed a vaulting club in order to teach kids how to safely ride her horses.
Linda Childrens book author and artist Linda Gruenberg is a horse lover at heart, She has done every possible thing you can do with horses, including having them mow the lawn, drive single and double, rake the hay field with a horse drawn rake, swim, jump logs and ditches, vault, stand in the saddle to pick applesyou get the point.
Its only fitting that her lifelong passion led her to write Hummer, a heartwarming middle grade novel about a forlorn girl whose life is changed by an Arabian horse and its owner.
As Linda conveys, if you have horses, neighbor kids eventually show up, and she loves getting a child up on a horse and seeing their eyes light up.
She even formed a vaulting club in order to teach kids how to safely ride her horses.
Linda enjoys sharing her love of horses with children, Linda likes starting out a book concept by asking, “What if” and churning that question in her mind until it turns into a story.
She believes that strong and memorable characters are so integral to a great story, and she can hear her characters voices sometimes, propelling her into deep characterization.
Its during these times that she even enjoys the company of her characters, She hopes that her storys characters allow her readers to step into someone elses shoes for a while and help them see the world from a different perspective and build empathy.
When Linda isnt writing uplifting stories of self discovery for middle graders, she enjoys painting watercolors of horses, carving, restoring horse drawn vehicles, building hitching posts, and any other horse related project.
She also plays the hammered dulcimer, a percussion stringed instrument dating toA, D. Linda is an American enjoying life in Lapland, Sweden, after living in Northern Michigan for many years.
She and her partner have two horses along with a family of hares and some wild reindeer who sometimes frolic in their yard.
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