Cañon City Public Library

Brown crayon sings "Play, Mud pie day," and Blue crayon calls "Sky, Swing so high" in this story about talking crayons.

A story-within-a-story. Scaled pages pair colors with incrementally smaller books sandwiched within each other, opening to reveal different animals, each opening a book of a different color and reading about the next.

"A Tanzanian albino boy finds himself the ultimate outsider, hunted because of the color of his skin"--

When Farmer Gray goes away for the day, Blue Goose, Red Hen, Yellow Chick, and White Duck get together and paint their black and white farm.

"All of the chickens in the farmyard lay eggs regularly-- all except for P. Zonka, that is. She's too busy looking at the colors of the world around her. The other chickens think P. Zonka's just lazy...until she lays the most beautiful egg they've ever seen"--

A trail of yellow dust leads Rainbow Fairies Rachel and Kirsty to a beehive. Is Sunny, the yellow fairy inside?

After breaking up, the colors must re-evaluate what it means to be a family.

Spring is here, and it's almost time for Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors. Siblings Mintoo and Chintoo are busy gathering flowers to make into colorful powders to toss during the festival. And when at last the big day comes, they gather with their friends, family, and neighbors for a vibrant celebration of fresh starts, friendship, forgiveness, and, of course, fun!

Teddy bears introduce numbers from one to twelve, as well as colors and shapes.

Blue Bug discovers through trial and error how colors mix to make different colors.