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.
Red Book, The
This book is about a book. A magical red book without any words. When you turn the pages you’ll experience a new kind of adventure through the power of story.Winning a Caldecott Honor for its illustrations of rare detail and surprise, The Red Book crosses oceans and continents to deliver one girl into a new world of possibility, where a friend she’s never met is waiting. And as with the best of books, at the conclusion of the story, the journey is not over.
Red Sings from Treetops
With original and spot-on perceptions, Joyce Sidman’s poetry brings the colors of the seasons to life in a fresh light, combining the senses of sight, sound, smell and taste. In this Caldecott Honor book, illustrator Pam Zagarenski’s interpretations go beyond the concrete, allowing us to not just see color, but feel it.
Color Day Relay (The Magic School Bus Chapter Books #19)
It’s Color Day in the Friz’s class. Ralphie and the rest of the Magic School Bus gang are in for an enlightening experience as they compete in a brilliant relay to learn about light and color.
When Ms. Frizzle announces that the class will be taking part in a Color Day relay, Ralphie is disappointed. He knows that a relay is all about speed, and he is always late for everything. His partners, Arnold and D.A., are smart, but they take their time to figure things out. Still, Ralphie soon realizes that his team can compete with the best and the brightest. Everyone has a chance to shine when the Friz is teaching about light and color. Get ready for a brilliant adventure with the Friz’s colorful class.
Green
Die cut pages bring surprise after surprise in this magical new book from the “Queen of the concept book”—an intricate and satisfying homage to green, the color of all creation.
How many kinds of green are there? There’s the lush green of a forest on a late spring day, the fresh, juicy green of a just-cut lime, the incandescent green of a firefly, and the vivid aquamarine of a tropical sea. In her newest book, Caldecott and Geisel Honor Book author Laura Vaccaro Seeger fashions an homage to a single color and, in doing so, creates a book that will delight and, quite possibly astonish you.
Day-Glo Brothers
A discovery that made the world a brighter place!
Joe and Bob Switzer were very different brothers. Bob was a studious planner who wanted to grow up to be a doctor. Joe dreamed of making his fortune in show business and loved magic tricks and problem-solving.
When an accident left Bob recovering in a darkened basement, the brothers began experimenting with ultraviolet light and fluorescent paints. Together they invented a whole new kind of color, one that glows with an extra-special intensity—Day-Glo.
This cover reproduction is not printed with Day-Glo colors. The actual book, however, is printed using three Day-Glo colors: Saturn Yellow, Fire Orange, and Signal Green.
Am I a Color Too?
A young interracial boy wonders why people are labeled by the color of their skin. Seeing that people dream, feel, sing, smile and dance, regardless of their color, he asks, ?Am I a color, too?? Gerald Purnell’s powerful art brings this simple poem vibrantly to life. “When I think of all the people, All those faces in my sight, If people are really colors, There should be more than black and white.”
Great Blueness and other Predicaments
The Great Blueness and Other Predicaments tells the story of a wizard who lived a long time ago, when there were no colors in the world. Everything in the world was black and white and gray. To amuse himself, the wizard mixes some things together and finds some interesting stuff in the bottom of his cauldron. When he names the stuff “blue” and paints his house with it, his neighbors want some. The rest of the story explains what happens after that.