Illustrated by Tony Persiani

You know those fluorescent oranges and yellows and greens that you see every day on traffic cones, safety vests, highlighters, and so on?

A hundred years ago, those colors didn’t even exist.

The Day-Glo Brothers is the story of the guys who invented those colors while they were in their teens and 20s back during the Depression and World War II.

It all started with a magic act and an accident at the ketchup factory…

48 pages
Ages 7-10
2009
Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 9781570916731

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