Frank Carlson Library

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.

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

"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"--

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text tell the story of a year in the life of a tree.

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.

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.

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

"Have you ever seen a zebra wearing pink polka dots? Or a penguin with bright-yellow boots? These black and white animals are not all quite black and white!"--