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.

MY WORLD OF COLOR

By Margaret Wise Brown

HYPERION BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

Copyright © 2002 Roberta Rauch
All right reserved.
ISBN: 0-7868-0605-2

Chapter One

Red as roses Red as red Red as the eyes In a rabbit's head

Orange as an orange tree Orange as a bumblebee Orange as the setting sun Sinking slowly in the sea

Yellow as a daisy's eye Or a cabbage butterfly Or the stripes across a bee And every dandelion I see

Green as a grasshopper Green as the green Of the greenest fern Any rabbit has been

Blue as the ocean Blue as the sky Blue as a bluebird Flying by

Purple as Easter eggs, marbles, and jellies Purple as martins with purple bellies Purple as coal and purple balloons Purple as shadows of late afternoon

Brown as mahogany Brown as a willow tree Brown as old brooms Brown as a ship's boom

Black as trees Black as ink Black as the night Where the dark moles think

Gray as soft fur Gray as gray socks Gray as Grandmother Gray as a fox

White as a dish White as a fish When you eat a white fish On a milk-white dish

Pink as pigs Pink as toes Pink as a rose Or a rabbit's nose

Now, I can color

RED as roses

ORANGE as an orange tree

YELLOW as butter and bees

GREEN as the grass

BLUE as the sky

PURPLE as phlox

GRAY as a fox

BLACK as a fly

PINK as a pig

BROWN a tree

WHITE as the raging seas

REd, yellow, green,, and blue Blue is the door That takes you through Into ...

(Continues...)

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