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• Brown Is Beautiful

  Kelkar, Supriya, 1980-

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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."

• Pete the Cat

  I Love My White Shoes

  Litwin, Eric

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  "Pete the Cat gets into colorful adventures while out walking in his new white shoes."

• Oh, Olive!

  Cho, Lian

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  "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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Book Is Red

  Stanton, Beck

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  "In this humorous concept book, readers are asked to question their logic for naming colors."

• Rat Fair

  Kessler, Leah Rose,

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  "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."

• A Rainbow in Brown

  Giron, Pavonis,

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  "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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• There Was a Party for Langston

  Reynolds, Jason

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  "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."

• The Hidden Rainbow

  Matheson, Christie

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  "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."

• Mouse Paint

  Walsh, Ellen Stoll

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  "Three white mice discover jars of red, blue, and yellow paint and explore the world of color."

• Creepy Crayon!

  Reynolds, Aaron, 1970-

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  "When Jasper Rabbit finds a purple crayon willing to do his schoolwork for him, he is elated—at first."

• Rainbow Hat

  Hai, Hong (Children's author),

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  "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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Niko Draws a Feeling

  Raczka, Bob

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  "No one understands the abstract pictures that Niko draws until a new friend sees the thought and feeling within his shapes and forms."

• Mixed

  a Colorful Story

  Chung, Arree

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  "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."

• Two Rainbows

  Masson, Sophie, 1959-

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  "All the colors of the rainbow are explored against the striking backdrop of two different worlds."

• This Book Is Gray

  Ward, Lindsay

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  "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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rainbow Weaver

  Tejedora Del Arcoíris

  Marshall, Linda Elovitz

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  "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."

• The Proudest Blue

  a Story of Hijab and Family

  Muhammad, Ibtihaj, 1985-

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  "Faizah relates how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears a hijab to school."

• Green

  Seeger, Laura Vaccaro

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

• Rainbow

  a First Book of Pride

  Genhart, Michael,

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  "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."

• Miles Morales Spider-Man

  Through a Hero's Eyes

  Millner, Denene

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  "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…Read moreRead more of this annotation