Colors Storytime

A red fire truck races, orange pumpkins glow, and purple flowers bloom in vivid pictures of familiar things that inspire children to look more carefully at their environment. The creator of the award-winning Shades of People offers a new concept book full of striking portraits of children from diverse backgrounds and brilliantly colored photographs.

Playful monsters combine their favorite crayons, red, yellow, and blue, to create new colors, including one never before seen.

A rabbit wanders through the various flowers and colors of a cottage garden.

The chameleon is feeling blue because he's lonely, so he goes and visits a yellow banana, pink cockatoo, swirly snail, brown boot, and so on. Each time, not only does he change his color to match the object or animal, but he also contorts himself into a shape that matches them.

"A brave little artist goes on an epic adventure to share her creativity with the world, adding color and life to a drab, gray city"--

Emotions, including happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and calm, are described through the actions of a monster sorting them out.

"A girl teaches a polar bear to see the colors in his environment as they take a trip around the world"--

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text celebrate the many shades of blue seen during the relationship of a boy and his dog as the boy grows from a baby to an adult.

Children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and a teacher looking at them. Includes note to parents and teachers, and related activities.

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.