Sound of Colors (book)
{{Short description|Book by Jimmy Liao}}
{{Infobox book
|name=Sound of Colors
|image=soundofcolors.jpg
|title_orig='地下鐵'
|author=Jimmy Liao
|country=Taiwan
|translator=Sarah L. Thomson (2006)
|language=Chinese
|genre=children's picture book
|published=2001, Locus Publishing
}}
{{Chinese|t={{linktext|地|下|鐵}}|s={{linktext|地|下|铁}}|p=Dì Xià Tiě|l=Underground Railway}}
Sound of Colors is a 2001 Taiwanese children's picture book written and illustrated by Jimmy Liao. The Chinese title means "subway", and the book follows a blind girl's imaginations as she rides the city's rapid transit. The book was translated to English by Sarah L. Thomson and published in 2006 as The Sound of Colors.
Reception
Publishers Weekly wrote the book "offers a meditation on blindness that will stay with readers long after they have closed the paper-over-board book".{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-316-93992-8|title=Children's Book Review: The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination by Jimmy Liao|website=Publishers Weekly|date=March 1, 2006}}
Translations
- English: {{cite book|title=The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination|url=https://archive.org/details/soundofcolorsjou0000thom|url-access=registration|translator=Sarah L. Thomson|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|year=2006}}
- Japanese: {{cite book|title=Chikatetsu (地下鉄)|translator=Noriko Housako|publisher=Shogakukan|year=2002}}
- Korean: {{cite book|title=Jihacheol (지하철)|translator=Baek Eun-young|publisher=Samtoh Publishing|year=2004}}
- Thai: {{cite book|title=Nai čhai klai kūa sāitā (ในใจ...ไกลกว่าสายตา)|translator=Prathumphō̜n Tangkunthawat|publisher=Nanmee Books|year=2004}}
- Spanish: {{cite book|title=El sonido de los colores|translator=Jordi Ainaud i Escudero|publisher=Barbara Fiore Editora|year=2008}}
- French: {{cite book|title=Le son des couleurs|translator=Stéphane Levêque|publisher=Bayard Jeunesse|year=2009}}
- Italian: {{cite book|title=La voce dei colori|translator=Silvia Torchio|publisher=Edizioni Gruppo Abele|year=2011}}
- Polish: {{cite book|title=Dźwięki kolorów|translator=Katarzyna Sarek|publisher=Officyna|year=2012}}
- Dutch: {{cite book|title=De klank van kleuren: een reis van de verbeelding|translator=Elske Kampen|publisher=Eduforce|year=2013}}
- Vietnamese: {{cite book|title=Âm thanh của sắc màu|translator=Nguyễn Lệ Chi|publisher=Kim Đồng Publishing House|year=2014}}
Adaptations
- Sound of Colors, a 2003 film directed by Joe Ma, starring Miriam Yeung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Dong Jie and Chang Chen
- Sound of Colors, a 2006 TV series directed by Zhang Min, starring Ruby Lin, Wallace Huo, Hao Lei and Huang Meng