Central Kansas Library System

When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.

Against the backdrop of the dark blue night, the text explores the colors of things, both natural and manmade, that one can see in the night, before falling asleep to dream.

"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"--

In this colorful story of a sloppy dog, you can count on a happy ending.

Three white mice discover jars of red, blue, and yellow paint and explore the world of color.

Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another. "Shapes and colors in your zoo, Lots of things that you can do. Heads and ears, beaks and snouts, That's what animals are all about. I know animals and you do too; Make some new ones for your zoo." -- Book Jacket.

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.

"The crayons fight over who is the true color of Christmas"--

A simple story highlights such things as a yellow lemon, a pink flamingo, and a silver moon in a visual game in which die-cut shapes fall on the correct color backgrounds.

The reader is asked to help a clown pick the correct colors to paint a fire engine, truck, and steam shovel.