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Color Our World: Summer Reading 2025, Picture Books

This year, Summer Reading invites you to explore the vibrant and multifaceted world around you through the power of reading!

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  • "On a hike with her grandparents, a young Indian-American girl makes note of all the things in the wilderness that are brown, too. Includes instructions on how to make a scrapbook."
    Book, 2022New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2022. — E KEL
  • Pete the Cat

    I Love My White Shoes

    Litwin, Eric
    "Pete the Cat gets into colorful adventures while out walking in his new white shoes."
    Book, 2010New York : Harper, 2010, c2008. — E PET LIT
  • "Olive thinks she is a fabulous artist, sloshing colorful paint everywhere; her parents believe she should be painting shapes in black and white. They send her to art school, but Olive paints her own way, and pretty soon the other kids at school…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — E CHO
  • "In this humorous concept book, readers are asked to question their logic for naming colors."
    Book, 2018New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — E STA
  • "When a group of industrious, fun-loving rats find letters fallen from an Art Fair sign, they put the sign back together and get to work creating a spectacular RAT FAIR."
    Book, 2021Brooklyn, NY : Pow!, 2021. — E KES
  • "Jo wants to paint all the wonderful things she loves. With a palette of red, yellow, and blue, Jo knows she can mix any colors together to create new ones. Her imagination takes flight as she explores painting with primary and by mixing her own…
    Book, 2024New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2024. — E GIR
  • "A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991."
    Book, 2023New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2023] — E REY
  • "Illustrations and simple, rhyming text invite the reader to uncover the rainbow of colors hidden in a garden, which helps flowers bloom and bees find food. Includes facts about bees and their importance."
    Book, 2020New York : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — E MAT
  • "Three white mice discover jars of red, blue, and yellow paint and explore the world of color."
    Book, 1989San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1989. — E WAL
  • "When Jasper Rabbit finds a purple crayon willing to do his schoolwork for him, he is elated—at first."
    Book, 2022New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2022] — E REY
  • "Woosh! Bear's colorful hat is blown away. From there it goes on a serendipitous adventure through all of Bear's animal friends back to his head. Will Bear get his hat back? The illustrations, full of emotion, movement, and playfulness, add to this…
    Book, 2021New York: Clavis, [2021] — E HAI
  • "No one understands the abstract pictures that Niko draws until a new friend sees the thought and feeling within his shapes and forms."
    Book, 2017Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2017] — E RAC
  • Mixed

    a Colorful Story

    Chung, Arree
    "Each believing that their hue is the best, the three primary colors live in separate parts of the city until Yellow and Blue meet, fall in love, and decide to mix."
    Book, 2018New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018. — E CHU
  • "All the colors of the rainbow are explored against the striking backdrop of two different worlds."
    Book, 2017Richmond, Vic. : Hardie Grant Egmont, 2017. — E MAS
  • "Gray just wants to be included. But the other colors are always leaving him out. So he decides to create his own project: an all-gray book. Once upon a time, there lived a wolf, a kitten, and a hippo... Gray just knows it's going to be perfect. But…
    Book, 2019New York : Two Lions, [2019] — E WAR
  • "Ixchel, a young Mayan girl who is not allowed to use her mother's thread to weave, exercises her ingenuity and repurposes plastic bags to create colorful weavings."
    Book, 2016New York : Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc., 2016. — E MAR
  • "Faizah relates how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears a hijab to school."
    Book, 2019New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — E MUH
  • "Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the many shades of the color green."
    Book, 2012New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2012. — E SEE
  • Rainbow

    a First Book of Pride

    Genhart, Michael,
    "Children from different kinds of families demonstrate the original meanings of the colors in the rainbow flag, and then come together at a Pride parade."
    Book, 2019Washington, DC : Magination Press, [2019] — E GEN
  • "In this heartfelt story about self-discovery, Miles Morales, aka Spider-Man, explores what it means to be an artist, a superhero and himself as he befriends a fellow artist who helps him learn more about his Puerto Rican heritage and the importance…
    Book, 2023Los Angeles : Marvel, 2023. — E SPI MIL