Children's Literature: Colors

Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues.

Fascinated by the colors, shapes, sounds, and movements of the many different birds she sees through her window, a little girl is happy to discover that she and they have something in common.

This title invites readers to imagine living without sight through remarkable illustrations done with raised lines and descriptions of colors based on imagery. Braille letters accompany the illustrations and a full Braille alphabet offers sighted readers help reading along with their fingers.

White illustrations against a black background, alternating with black illustrations against a white background, depicting objects such as an elephant, butterfly, leaf, horse, baby bottle, and sailboat.

Children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and a mother looking at them.

Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.

Presents fruits and vegetables carved into shapes to teach colors, numbers, letters, shapes, and opposites.

Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles.

From a red prayer rug to a blue hijab, everyday colors are given special meaning as young readers learn about clothing, food, and other important elements of Islamic culture, with a young Muslim girl as a guide.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the many shades of the color green.

Green is a chile pepper, spicy and hot.
Green is cilantro inside our pot.
In this lively picture book, children discover a world of colors all around them: red is spices and swirling skirts, yellow is masa, tortillas, and sweet corn cake.

During the course of a walk, a young boy identifies animals of different colors.

A young child lists the orange ball, brown bear, green blocks, and other colorful toys found in the blue room of a red house.

Illustrations and brief text introduce colors and the concepts of shape and size.

A simple story highlights such things as a yellow lemon, a pink flamingo, and a silver moon in a visual game in which die-cut shapes fall on the correct color backgrounds.

Photographs of toys, food, and other common objects are grouped on each page according to color.

A number/color book reminding us that it just takes one to make everyone count.

Presents the days of the week, the months of the year, and numbers from one to ten through the activities of a cat and people in and around a lighthouse.

This artful first colors book introduces children to 9 basic colors and 20 shades of each.

Edna the penguin tries to find something in her surroundings that is not black, white, or blue.

Some people think pink is a pretty color. A fluffy, sparkly, princess-y color. But it's so much more. Sure, pink is the color of princesses and bubblegum, but it's also the color of monster slugs and poisonous insects. Not to mention ultra-intelligent dolphins, naked mole rats and bizarre, bloated blobfish.
Isn't it about time to rethink pink?

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

Presents brightly colored photograph illustrations that demonstrate the three primary colors and three secondary colors, as well as brown, pink, black, white, gray, silver, and gold.

Brief text and illustrations introduce a variety of colors and where they may seen, alone or in combinations.

The natural world provides a series of colorful scenes during the course of one twenty-four-hour period, as white moon is superseded by golden sun above a host of active animals.

White Rabbit hops from one paint pot to another, changing colors as he goes, until he ends up brown.

A dialogue between two speakers, one of whom must keep insisting on an interest in the color red, introduces that hue as well as green, blue, yellow, and others.