Colors

Mis colores, mi mundo = My colors, my world

By Maya Christina Gonzalez

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Pura Belpré Honor Book, 2008. In this 2008 Pura Belpre Honor Book we meet Maya, who lives in the dusty desert She opens her eyes wide to find the colors in her world, from Papi's black hair and Mami's orange and purple flowers to Maya's red swing set and the fiery pink sunset. A joyful celebration of colors through a child's eyes.
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We'll All Go Sailing

By Maggie Spicer

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The young narrator and his friends, Maggee and Jesse, travel to a myriad of places to look at sea life that is every colour of the rainbow. Children will delight in the pink octopus, the blue manatee, and the orange barracuda, to name but a few. Richard Thompson and Maggee Spicer have created a rhythmic poem (in the same vein as their ealier collaboration, Fishes in the Ocean) that will encourage the very youngest of new readers. Together with Kim La Fave's bold and playful illustrations, this delightful poem will ... make a fine book To show what we'll see, When we all go sailing On the rainbow seas.
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

By Bill Martin, Jr.

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Repetition and rhyme make this book an all-time favorite.

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Orange Pear Apple Bear

By Emily Gravett

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A funny story that uses only five words!

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The Everything Book

By Denise Fleming

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Everything from colors to shapes to rhymes and more.

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My Many Colored Days

By Dr. Seuss

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Every color is associated with a different feeling.

Suggested for ages 3 - 6

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Swimmy

By Leo Lionni

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A little black fish in a school of red fish figures out a way of protecting them all from their natural enemies.

Suggested for ages 3 - 8

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Dog's Colorful Day: a Messy Story about Colors and Counting

By Emma Dodd

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In this colorful story of a sloppy dog, you can count on a happy ending.

Suggested for ages 3 - 7

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Growing Colors

By Bruce McMillan

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Photographs of green peas, yellow corn, red potatoes, purple beans, and other fruits and vegetables illustrate the many colors of nature.

Suggested for ages 3 - 7

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