02270cam a2200529 i 4500 945132396 TxAuBib 20230823120000.0 211102s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021949887 9781984894366 trade 1984894366 trade 9781984894373 lib. bdg. 1984894374 lib. bdg. (OCoLC)1295998530 TxAuBib rda Brew-Hammond, Nana Ekua,. 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. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022] ©2022. 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. 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. Ages: 4-8. Grades: PreS-3. 20230823. Orbis Pictus Award, 2023. Blue Juvenile literature. Blue. Pigments Juvenile literature. Pigments. Color Juvenile literature. Dyes and dyeing Juvenile literature. Dyes and dyeing. Color. Creative nonfiction. Informational works. Illustrated works. Minter, Daniel,.