Concept Books: Colors

Different-colored monsters happily howl, growl, and roar for more as they mixand match primary colors to make new shades and hues. Full color.

For use in schools and libraries only. White Rabbit hops from one paint pot to another, changing colors as he goes, until he ends up brown

There are so many colors that Cleo can see! Come along and discover the colorful world in Cleo’s backyard—then go explore the colors at your house! Learn basic colors with Cleo and then mix them up to discover even more.

Well-loved for her books for young children, Margaret Wise Brown excels in bringing attention to the smallest details in a child's world. Here she introduces the concept of color to children with a wonderfully playful, lyrical text. Loretta Krupinski's jewel-toned palette, charming characters, and plentiful details perfectly complement the text.

Sixteen calico kittens -- the number of colors in a crayon box. Their mother, Sophie, knows one from another...but how do you think Mrs. Tuttle tells those kittens apart? Peter Catalanotto's sequel to his Matthew A.B.C. and Daisy 1, 2, 3 invites long looking, counting, and laughing!

Alexander the monkey finds an ordinary-looking box with spots of color inside, through which he journeys to many bright landscapes of different colors. Each page has a hole revealing the next color he will find.

A rainy day keeps a band of warthogs inside all day, so they decide to paint to pass the time. As they mix their colors and cover the walls (and themselves) with colors, younger readers can learn about primary colors and how they mix to make secondary colors in this messy companion to "Warthogs in the Kitchen: A Sloppy Counting Book". Full-color illustrations.

Young children will enjoy learning about colors and flowers with this new edition of one of Lois Ehlert's most popular titles in a brand-new format.

A vibrantly illustrated mixture of colorful animals, bugs, plants and people are woven together with shapes, patterns and rhyming text in this captivating unique concept book. The colorful illustrations set on a black background spring from the pages and the rhyming text will keep the pages turning over and over again!

What are the colors of your world? Where do you see these colors? Have you seen them anywhere else? Join Tana Hoban for hours of fun and colorful investigations.

A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2008 It is very hard for a sighted person to imagine what it is like to be blind. This groundbreaking, award-winning book endeavors to convey the experience of a person who can only see through his or her sense of touch, taste, smell or hearing. Raised black line drawings on black paper, which can be deciphered by touch, complement a beautifully written text describing colors through imagery. Braille letters accompany the text so that the sighted reader can begin to imagine what it is like to use Braille to read. A full Braille alphabet at the end of the book can be used to learn more.

"An introduction to concepts of color and patterns with bold illustrations and a simple, rhythmic text."

A World of Colors is an elegant photographic picture book, perfect for young children who are ready to stretch their minds. The book invites kids into a world where the relationships between colors and their objects are not always as expected, where bananas are not always yellow and where blue and blue and blue may be three different colors. What world is this? It’s the real world. A combination of sumptuous photography and simple, interactive text makes this a perfect lap book to help kids make giant leaps in their observational skills. Readers are asked to find a whole spectrum of colored objects, from the expected_blue sky, green leaves_ to the surprising_pink fish, blue feet. Marie Houblon gives preschool readers a grand tour through the colors of their world in lavish spreads that signal the name of the color in large type and show named objects in that color. The following spread challenges the reader to find the same color in photographs from all over the world. Thus, kids are taken on a world tour of orange, for example_observing orange tangerines on an assembly line in Japan, orange eyes in a robot toy in Britain, and orange hair on a little boy in Ireland. When the name for the color and the color itself don’t match, the text is there to ask why we see things in a funny way sometimes_like why we call it red hair. Then, the reader is encouraged to look beyond the book to identify a world of colors in their own surroundings.

Here’s the story of a curious little owl determined to see what the world looks like during the day. And what does she discover? A wow-worthy symphony of colors—from red butterflies to orange flowers, from white clouds to green leaves.This boisterous and bright book is the perfect read-aloud to savor with curious little owls everywhere who are exploring the world of colors for the first time.

The girl in red, the girl in yellow, the girl in blue, and the boy in black and white are all set to stir up the rainbow. Watch them create a living kaleidoscope, step by step by step.

A young boy learns about colors in a day at the farm.

Color has the power to inspire and delight. The playful photographs here invite youngsters on an international urban journey with color as their guide - from London's famous red double-deckers to New York City's shiny black limousines to Rio de Janeiro's multicolored playgrounds. The ten colors featured are each clearly presented in a main photograph and in a smaller focus image.

What color is a bean? Green? Or might it be purple? Dose a plum grow in, on, or above the ground? Join award-winning phott-ilustrater Bruce McMillan as he takes his camera in srech of some of nature's gorgeous colors found in gardens and orchards--and expect the unexpected.

A thoughtful look at colors, this photo essay is Myles and Sandra Pinkney's follow-up to their debut title, SHADES OF BLACK, winner of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Children's Literary Work. Red Hot Full of love Cinnamony sweet A Happy Valentine Purple Wild Crazy Nutritious and delicious Jammin' on a slice of bread

Introduces some common objects that are orange in color including carrots, pumpkins, and basketballs.

Introduces some common objects that are yellow in color including mustard, lemons and hard hats.

Introduces some common objects that are red in color including cherries, red licorice, and stop signs.

Introduces some common objects that are purple in color including jelly, cabbage, and flowers.

Introduces some common objects that are blue in color including blueberries, bluebirds, and blue jeans.

Introduces some common objects that are green in color including plants and frogs.

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.

Lemons are not Red. Apples are red. Lemons are yellow. . . . Clever cutouts in the pages make a simple, original, and utterly beguiling introduction to color. Laura Vaccaro Seeger, whose The Hidden Alphabet dazzled critics and readers alike, introduces young children to color in this unique concept book with die cuts. The opening spread features a big, bright red lemon and the simple text, "Lemons are not RED." When the spread is turned an equally bright yellow lemon appears ("Lemons are YELLOW") across from a luscious red apple ("Apples are RED").And so it goes, from carrots that are not purple through reindeer that are not white, et al. The book ends with "The moon is not BLACK / The moon is SILVER / The night is BLACK / Good night! And the reader sees a tranquil night landscape and a house with the lights turned out.

This gorgeous, smart, innovative work is a book about looking and, more importantly, seeing; it's a book about color, art, nature, and point of view. Full color.

Colors explode off the page as Sherry Shahan's energetic, jazzy poetry introduces young readers to colors in English and Spanish. In a style brimming with rhythm and syncopation, Shahan introduces nine colors by interweaving images and dance steps. Ecuadoran artist Paula BarragA-n's computer-enhanced cut-paper illustrations capture the rhythm and vivacity of the text.

Discover shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and more as a little girl finds color in all sorts of everyday things. Many of the featured objects are Asian in origin, others universal: red is the dragon in the Chinese New Year parade, green is a bracelet made of jade, and yellow are the taxis she sees on her street. With rich, boisterous illustrations and colors that leap off the page, this concept picturebook will brighten every child's day!

One day three white mice discover three jars of paint--red, blue, and yellow. Both parents and children alike will appreciate this lighthearted presentation of a lesson in color. “Walsh’s cut-paper collage illustrations have bold colors and just the right simplicity for the storyline. A real charmer that’s great fun as well as informative.”--School Library Journal

Join a young boy for a playful stroll with a colorful parade of farm animals.

Bestselling author Audrey Wood and artist son Bruce create a cumulative concept book about colors, with more of the vivid imagery that has made their alphabet books so successful! Readers will love learning their colors with this brightly illustrated, cumulative picture book by bestselling author Audrey Wood and her dynamic, digital-artist son, Bruce. Starting with a rock, a red rock, in the middle of the deep blue sea, the story takes a closer look at this tropical locale. The simple, repetitive text makes for a fun read-aloud for storytime or sharing, and identifying the vivid images and strong colors provides an exciting concept learning experience for young readers.

A fantastic first concept book about colours, featuring 20 vehicles from bulldozers and trucks to tippers and diggers, and showing ten different colours. There's a wheel to turn on the final spread, where the child can match vehicles to colours, for extra interactive learning and fun. By the FL star of vehicles books and all things on wheels - Susan Steggall.

What better thing to do on a grey day than collect some colours? Cat decides to do just that, but where will she find them? A charming, deceptively simple story about making the most of the world around us, and giving something back in return.