Central Kansas Library System

"Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream"--

While taking a walk with Mouse, Bear meets many other friends and sees colors everywhere.

One day, Duncan is happily coloring with his crayons when a stack of postcards arrives in the mail from his former crayons, each of which has run away or been left behind, and all of which want to come home.

As he walks down the street, Pete the cat sings about his brand new white shoes as they change from red to blue to brown to wet.

Humorous animal characters introduce the basic colors and familiar items of clothing. On board pages.

The names of colors are woven into unrhymed poems that celebrate the seasons.