This Is Orange: A Field Trip Through Color

This nonfiction exploration follows the color orange through nature, art, history, culture, and science. It considers orange in fruit, foxes, minerals, mushrooms, paintings, religious ceremonies, and astronaut survival suits. The book also explains aspects of how orange is named and made, including red and yellow paint mixtures, and traces facts about pigments and minerals such as realgar and crocoite. More than thirty examples invite a close look at one color’s many uses and associations.