Central Kansas Library System

A young girl describes where she finds colors in both the world around her and beyond what she can see.

It is time to get dressed and Michael counts on his dog, Maggie, for help as he places yellow socks, a brown hat, blue pants, and other colorful articles of clothing where they belong.

"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 the rhythm of a familiar folk song, a child cannot resist adding one more dab of paint in surprising places.

Using no special effects other than the reader's imagination, simple directions lead the reader to experiment with mixing and changing colors on the printed page.

A bored chameleon wishes it could be more like all the other animals it sees, but soon decides it would rather just be itself. Cutouts along the edges of the pages display various animals and colors.

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.

Describes how to make a colorful, delicious vegetable soup. Includes recipe.

"Two children notice all the beautiful colors that surround them on a rainy summer day out in the country"--

Simple text and illustrations take young readers on a rainbow tour of Easter colors.