{"id":8440,"date":"2014-06-19T16:27:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T20:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=8440"},"modified":"2021-08-17T21:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T01:30:30","slug":"colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<o:DocumentProperties>\n<o:Revision>0<\/o:Revision>\n<o:TotalTime>0<\/o:TotalTime>\n<o:Pages>1<\/o:Pages>\n<o:Words>104<\/o:Words>\n<o:Characters>594<\/o:Characters>\n<o:Lines>4<\/o:Lines>\n<o:Paragraphs>1<\/o:Paragraphs>\n<o:CharactersWithSpaces>697<\/o:CharactersWithSpaces>\n<o:Version>14.0<\/o:Version>\n<\/o:DocumentProperties>\n<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>\n<o:AllowPNG\/>\n<\/o:OfficeDocumentSettings>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><!-- [if gte mso 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ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/2\/#Color_and_History\" >Color and History<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/2\/#_Color_Mixing_to_Color_Theory\" >\u00a0Color Mixing to Color Theory<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/2\/#Color_and_Art\" >Color and Art<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/2\/#Seeing_in_Color\" >Seeing in Color<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/2\/#Color_and_Feelings\" >Color and Feelings<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/3\/#Color_and_Poetry\" >Color and Poetry<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/3\/#Color_and_Science\" >Color and Science<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/3\/#Rainbows\" >Rainbows<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/3\/#Color_Math\" >Color Math<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/4\/#Reading_Through_Roy_G_Biv\" >Reading Through Roy G Biv<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/4\/#RED\" >RED<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/4\/#ORANGE\" >ORANGE<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-15\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/4\/#YELLOW\" >YELLOW<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-16\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/4\/#GREEN\" >GREEN<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-17\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/4\/#BLUE\" >BLUE<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-18\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/colors\/4\/#PURPLE\" >PURPLE<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Color_for_Beginners\"><\/span><b>Color for Beginners<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>ROY G BIV is the kicky little mnemonic that helps us remember, in order, the colors of the visible spectrum: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. According to most public-school curricula, kids should be able to name and identify the colors by the time they get out of kindergarten (both primary and secondary colors, plus brown, black, white, and gray) and there are hundreds &#8211; literally, <i>hundreds <\/i>&#8211; of books do help them do so.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12237 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/babylit-alice-colors-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/babylit-alice-colors-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/babylit-alice-colors-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/babylit-alice-colors.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Jennifer Adams and Alison Oliver, Babylit\u2019s <i>Alice in Wonderland<\/i> (Gibbs Smith, 2014) is a \u201ccolors primer\u201d with a Wonderland theme, featuring a white rabbit, a blue caterpillar, a yellow teapot, and a lot of red hearts. For ages 1-4.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51dT1f41p9L._SX260_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"281\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>In Keith Baker\u2019s <em>Little Green Peas<\/em> (Little Simon, 2016) \u2013 subtitle \u201ca BIG book of COLORS\u201d \u2013 the little green peas sail blue boats, fly red kites, ski down purple mountains, and more. For ages 2-5.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12247 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-zoo-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-zoo-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-zoo.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Lois Ehlert\u2019s visually appealing <i>Color Farm <\/i>(HarperCollins, 1990) and <i>Color Zoo <\/i>(HarperCollins, 1989) pack a triple whammy, combining animals, colors, and geometric shapes. Kids discover lions, tigers, monkeys, pigs, cows, and chickens, variously pieced together from blue circles, orange squares, red triangles, and the like. For ages 2-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12239 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Brown-Bear-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Brown-Bear-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Brown-Bear-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Brown-Bear-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Brown-Bear-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Brown-Bear.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Bill Martin\u2019s <i>Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? <\/i>(Henry Holt, 1992) &#8211; a wonderful rhyming classic &#8211; is a picture-book tour of brilliantly colored paper-collage animals, including, along with the title\u2019s brown bear, a blue horse, green frog, purple cat, and bright-yellow duck. For ages 2-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12265 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Red-Blue-Shoe-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Red-Blue-Shoe-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Red-Blue-Shoe-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Red-Blue-Shoe.jpg 653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Tana Hoban, known for her award-winning wordless picture books illustrated with full-page photographs, has published several with color themes, among them <i>Of Colors and Things <\/i>(Greenwillow, 1996), <i>Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue?: An Adventure in Color <\/i>(William Morrow, 1987), and <i>Colors Everywhere <\/i>(Greenwillow, 1995). This last &#8211; a collection of glowing scenes of striped umbrellas, flower gardens, autumn leaves, and birds &#8211; includes bar graphs on each page showing the proportions of the different colors present in the photographs. For ages 2-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12251 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/growing-colors-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/growing-colors-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/growing-colors.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Bruce McMillan\u2019s <i>Growing Colors<\/i> (Mulberry Books, 1994) is set in the garden, where readers find colors in luscious photographs of green peas, yellow corn, purple beans, and red raspberries. For ages 2-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12258 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/my-crayons-talk-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/my-crayons-talk-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/my-crayons-talk.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Patricia Hubbard\u2019s <i>My Crayons Talk <\/i>(Henry Holt, 1999), a little girl discovers colors through a very vocal box of talking crayons (Brown shouts \u201cPlay! Mudpie day!\u201d). For ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12261 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/one-lighthouse-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/one-lighthouse-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/one-lighthouse.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Anita Lobel\u2019s <i>One Lighthouse, One Moon <\/i>(Greenwillow, 2002) is an enchanting multifaceted introduction to colors, numbers (1-10), the days of the week, the seasons, and the months of the year. Colors are paired with the days of the week, as a little girl dons different-colored footgear for each day\u2019s activity: green gardening clogs, red cowboy boots, yellow beach sandals, pink ballet slippers. For ages 4-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/xl_9781541554665_fc-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/xl_9781541554665_fc-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/xl_9781541554665_fc.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>By Mari Schuh, the Crayola World of Color series (Lerner, 2019), includes <em>World of Blue<\/em>, <em>Red<\/em>, <em>Green<\/em>, <em>Orange<\/em>, <em>Yellow<\/em>, and <em>Purple<\/em>, each filled with colorful photos. Included in each is a short color glossary. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12268 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sky-color-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sky-color-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sky-color-1024x956.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sky-color-768x717.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sky-color-1536x1434.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sky-color-2048x1912.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Peter Reynolds\u2019s <i>Sky Color<\/i> (Candlewick, 2013), art-loving Marisol is thrilled to be making a mural for the library \u2013 but there\u2019s no blue paint. How to make a sky with no blue paint? Then she realizes that there\u2019s far more to the sky than blue: there are all the colors of sunrises, sunsets, and swirling stars. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12249 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/day-crayons-quit-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/day-crayons-quit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/day-crayons-quit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/day-crayons-quit.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Drew Daywalt\u2019s hilarious <em>The Day the Crayons Quit<\/em> (Philomel Books, 2013), when Duncan opens his box of crayons he finds nothing but disgruntled letters. Beige feels underappreciated (everybody likes Brown better); Black is sick of being used for nothing but outlining; Blue is exhausted from constantly coloring huge expanses of sky and sea. Orange and Yellow are fighting over the color of the sun; and Peach, whose wrapper has been torn off, is naked and in hiding. Duncan comes up with an artistic solution that makes everybody happy. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rif.org\/literacy-central\/book\/day-crayons-quit\">The Day the Crayons Quit<\/a> is a color-illustrated Reading Is Fundamental guide for parents and educators with extension suggestions, multidisciplinary activities, a vocabulary list, and technology links.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"For_Older_Readers\"><\/span><b>For Older Readers<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/41PB4cpw8mS-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/41PB4cpw8mS-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/41PB4cpw8mS.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Jude Stewart\u2019s <em>Roy G Biv<\/em> (Adams Media, 2013) is a cleverly designed story of color, filled with factoids, myths, quotations, and historical snippets on all the colors of the rainbow. For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><br \/><\/b><\/b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12267 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/secret-lang-of-color-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/secret-lang-of-color-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/secret-lang-of-color.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Joann Eckstut\u2019s <i>The Secret Language of Color<\/i> (Black Dog &amp; Leventhal, 2013) is a lushly illustrated history and science of color. Readers learn \u2013 among much else \u2013 why grass is green and flamingos are pink, where yellow journalism comes from, and why doctors wear green scrubs. For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12241 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-finlay-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-finlay-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-finlay.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><br \/><b><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Victoria Finlay\u2019s <i>Color: A Natural History of the Palette<\/i> (Random House, 2007) is a fascinating exploration of pigments worldwide, filled with intriguing info. Learn all about logwood, saffron, indigo, and lapis lazuli. For tees and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12262 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/primary-colors-theroux-171x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/primary-colors-theroux-171x300.jpg 171w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/primary-colors-theroux.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><br \/><b><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Alexander Theroux\u2019s <i>The Primary Colors <\/i>and <i>The Secondary Colors <\/i>(Henry Holt, 1996) are two essay collections, both fascinating compilations of everything (<i>everything!<\/i>) having to do with red, blue, yellow, orange, purple, or green. Try a color essay of your own! For teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, see <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/color\/\">Color<\/a> for philosophers. Color is a lot more complicated than you might think.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>For more resources, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/philosophy\/\">Philosophy<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colormatters.com\/\">Color Matters<\/a> is a website devoted to all aspects of color, including color symbolism, color psychology, color vision, and the science of color, plus lists of color resources. For younger visitors, there\u2019s a kids\u2019 page and fun color facts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From the Tech Museum, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20101205175641\/http:\/\/www.thetech.org\/exhibits\/online\/color\/overview\/\">Make a Splash with Color<\/a> covers a wide range of color topics, including color science, color vision, hue, brightness, and saturation, and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artyfactory.com\/color_theory\/color_theory.htm\">Color Theory for Art and Design<\/a> covers Color as Symbol, Color as Light, Color as Emotion, and Color Terms, and ends up with a Color Quiz.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><!--nextpage--><\/h4>\n<h4><b>Color and History<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51Eb8YlOziL._SX370_BO1204203200_-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51Eb8YlOziL._SX370_BO1204203200_-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51Eb8YlOziL._SX370_BO1204203200_.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>By Clive Gifford, <em>The Colors of History: How Colors Shaped the World<\/em> (QEB Publishing, 2018) is a catchy history of color. Learn about the cave painters\u2019 yellow ocher, and find out about mummy brown, Egyptian blue, and why the Roman emperors wore purple. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13316 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pigments-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pigments-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pigments.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webexhibits.org\/pigments\/intro\/reds2.html\">Pigments Through the Ages<\/a> has illustrated histories of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, white, brown, and black. Under Red, for example, readers learn that in China, the Phoenix was called the Vermilion Bird, that Neolithic hunters buried their dead with red ochre, and that the red rose is dedicated to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/b309b932b92e2bce9a6d8873f93d9156-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/b309b932b92e2bce9a6d8873f93d9156-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/b309b932b92e2bce9a6d8873f93d9156.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>From Pantone, check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/bitrebels.com\/lifestyle\/history-of-color-decades-infographic\/\">50 Years of Color History<\/a> infographic &#8211; starting with the Psychedelic 60s and the Earthy 70s -and see a list of award-winning Colors of the Year. (2021: Ultimate Gray.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colourlovers.com\/print\/blog\/2008\/10\/27\/a-graphic-history-of-the-color-pink\">A Graphic History of the Color Pink<\/a> claims that no other color in modern history has had such an impact on masculinity, femininity, and politics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Pink is for girls? Really? Read all about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097\/?no-ist=\">When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?<\/a> from Smithsonian magazine.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>Color Mixing to Color Theory<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12271 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/white-rabbit-color-bk-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/white-rabbit-color-bk-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/white-rabbit-color-bk.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/b>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Alan Baker\u2019s <i>White Rabbit\u2019s Color Book<\/i> (Kingfisher, 1999), White Rabbit plunges into pots of primary-colored paint. Readers learn about colors, color-mixing, shapes, letters, and numbers. For ages 2-5.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81CYMb8T-9L-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81CYMb8T-9L-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81CYMb8T-9L-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81CYMb8T-9L-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81CYMb8T-9L-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81CYMb8T-9L-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81CYMb8T-9L.jpg 1801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/b><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>In Nancy Tafuri\u2019s <em>Blue Goose<\/em> (Little Simon, 2010), Blue Goose, Red Hen, Yellow Chick, and White Duck decide to paint their black-and-white barn and farmyard. A story of color and color-mixing for ages 2-5.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><br \/><\/b><\/b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12257 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mouse-paint-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mouse-paint-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mouse-paint-1024x857.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mouse-paint-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mouse-paint.jpg 1519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Color mixing &#8211; in a messy but artistic sense &#8211; is the theme of Ellen Stoll Walsh\u2019s <i>Mouse Paint<\/i> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995), in which a trio of plump white mice come upon three jars of paint (red, blue, and yellow) and discover &#8211; with a lot of splashing about &#8211; how to combine them to make green, orange, and purple. For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><br \/><\/b><\/b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12240 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-dance-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-dance-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-dance.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Ann Jonas\u2019s <i>Color Dance <\/i>(Mulberry Books, 1999) explains color-mixing through dance, as three children in leotards twirl and whirl with billowing red, blue, and yellow scarves. For ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>While the best introduction to color-mixing is almost certainly to plop down some protective newspaper and a few pots of paint and let the kids experiment (\u201cLook, Mom! I made <i>brown<\/i>!\u201d), there are many resources available for expanding upon this activity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinderart.com\/\">KinderArt<\/a> website has a large selection of great art lesson plans for kids in preschool through grade 12, many with color themes. For example, see \u201cBlotter Bugs\u201d (a color-mixing activity) and \u201cNeutral Colors\u201d (learn all about black, brown, gray, and white).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13310 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/color-changing-milk-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/color-changing-milk-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/color-changing-milk.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevespanglerscience.com\/lab\/experiments\/milk-color-explosion\">Color Changing Milk<\/a> is a simple (and fun) experiment in which kids explore color-mixing with food coloring, milk, and soap.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Learn color theory with <a href=\"http:\/\/thevirtualinstructor.com\/interactivecolorwheel.html\">The Interactive Color Wheel<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12246 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-wheel-image-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-wheel-image-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-wheel-image-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-wheel-image-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-wheel-image.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Learn all about the history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printmag.com\/design-inspiration\/the-wondrous-color-wheel-part-1\/\">The Wonderful Color Wheel<\/a> with terrific period illustrations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Painting-colors-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Painting-colors-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Painting-colors.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>From Deep Space Sparkle, a great hands-on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepspacesparkle.com\/experimenting-with-color-theory\/\">color theory lesson<\/a> in which kids create and name colors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/unnamed-4-1-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/unnamed-4-1-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/unnamed-4-1-997x1024.jpg 997w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/unnamed-4-1-768x788.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/unnamed-4-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td>Try making your own <a href=\"https:\/\/theartofeducation.edu\/2019\/01\/25\/a-more-creative-way-to-teach-color-theory\/\">color wheel project<\/a>!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>Color and Art<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12236 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Art-of-Colors-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Art-of-Colors-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Art-of-Colors.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><i>The Art of Colors: For Children and Adults <\/i>(Margaret Steele; Fotofolio, 1999) combines color and art history: kids are introduced to color through twelve different modern art works &#8211; for example, purple in an Andy Warhol silkscreen, black in a Louise Nevelson sculpture, red in an oil by Mark Rothko. The book also has a multicultural flair: names of the colors are given in English, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese. For ages 4 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12238 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bright-earth-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bright-earth-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bright-earth-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bright-earth-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bright-earth.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Philip Ball\u2019s <i>Bright Earth<\/i> (University of Chicago Press, 2003) is a detailed history and science of colors in painting. For older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>From Dick Blick, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickblick.com\/lesson-plans\/color-scramble\/\">Color Scramble<\/a> is a project in which kids made geometric color pictures based on the work of Frank Stella, using colored masking tape.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webexhibits.org\/colorart\/\">Color Vision &amp; Art<\/a> covers how color is used by artists, with detailed background information and many illustrations and examples of artworks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>From Mensa for Kids, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mensaforkids.org\/teach\/lesson-plans\/introduction-to-color\/\">Introduction to Color<\/a> is a multifaceted online lesson plan with extension activities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>For many more resources, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/art-recreated\/\">Art<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>Seeing in Color<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12253 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kid-in-colored-glasses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"255\" \/><\/td>\n<td>From Neuroscience for Kids, <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/chudler\/eyecol.html\">Color Vision<\/a> has background information, illustrations, resources, and experiment suggestions for a range of ages.<b><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>From Webvision, <a href=\"http:\/\/webvision.med.utah.edu\/book\/part-vii-color-vision\/color-vision\/\">Color Vision<\/a> is a detailed scientific explanation of how color vision works. Pair this one with high-school biology class.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/eye\/\">The Joy of Visual Perception<\/a> is an online book on the eye, with many sections related to color and color vision. For example, check out the pages on Newton\u2019s prism, color mixing, color blindness, and rainbows.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>From How Stuff Works, <a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/life\/human-biology\/eye3.htm\">How Vision Works<\/a> includes illustrated information on color vision and color blindness.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13314 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/stroop-test-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/stroop-test-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/stroop-test-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/stroop-test.jpg 932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In the Stroop Test, players match color meanings with differently colored words. A simple but surprising test on how the brain processes incongruous information. Give it a try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/everest\/exposure\/stroopintro.html\">here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>Read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/chudler\/words.html\">Stroop Test<\/a> here and try an interactive online experiment.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13309 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/color-blind-test-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/color-blind-test-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/color-blind-test.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Do you think you might be colorblind? Take the <a href=\"http:\/\/colorvisiontesting.com\/ishihara.htm\">Ishihara Color Vision<\/a> test online.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>Color and Feelings<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12259 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/my-many-colored-days-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/my-many-colored-days-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/my-many-colored-days-839x1024.jpg 839w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/my-many-colored-days-768x937.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/my-many-colored-days-1259x1536.jpg 1259w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/my-many-colored-days.jpg 1313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Dr. Seuss\u2019s <i>My Many Colored Days<\/i> (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1998) is a rhyming association of colors with feelings: on a yellow day, the narrator is \u201ca busy, buzzy bee,\u201d on a green day, a \u201ccool and quiet fish,\u201d on a black day, a howling wolf. For ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>From the Book Nook, <a href=\"http:\/\/csefel.vanderbilt.edu\/booknook\/many_colored_days.pdf\">My Many Colored Days<\/a> has discussion questions and activities to accompany the book. For example, kids make color spinners and color puppets, go on a color hunt, and make color-dyed hardboiled eggs with emotional facial expressions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12250 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/great-blueness-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/great-blueness-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/great-blueness.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Arnold Lobel\u2019s <i>The Great Blueness and Other Predicaments<\/i> (HarperCollins, 1994) is a wonderful picture book on the emotional impact of color, as a wizard, inventing colors, turns a little town blue (which makes everybody sad), yellow (which gives everyone headaches), and red (which makes everyone angry), until finally coming up with the best solution: to use all the colors at once. It\u2019s out of print, but worth tracking down. Check your library. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12243 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-of-his-own-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-of-his-own-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-of-his-own-768x608.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-of-his-own.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Leo Lionni\u2019s <i>A Color of His Own <\/i>(Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2006) is a story about learning to know and value oneself, told from the point of view of a chubby little chameleon who doesn\u2019t want to change color. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><a class=\"rg_l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-na.ssl-images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F71Mbn5OH4xL.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLittle-Blue-Yellow-Leo-Lionni%2Fdp%2F0375860134&amp;docid=z6q3LcO1WFTiZM&amp;tbnid=9hIMdD13fxm5CM%3A&amp;vet=10ahUKEwjImdaZj6_hAhVNUt8KHVRlBmAQMwg8KAAwAA..i&amp;w=2408&amp;h=2408&amp;bih=1137&amp;biw=1387&amp;q=little%20blue%20and%20little%20yellow&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjImdaZj6_hAhVNUt8KHVRlBmAQMwg8KAAwAA&amp;iact=mrc&amp;uact=8\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"9hIMdD13fxm5CM:\" class=\"rg_ic rg_i alignnone\" 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alt=\"Image result for little blue and little yellow\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" data-atf=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Also by Lionni, <i>Little Blue and Little Yellow<\/i> (HarperCollins, 1995) is a story about friendship (the colors ultimately blend to form a beautiful green). For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>From The Great Courses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatcourses.com\/courses\/how-colors-affect-you-what-science-reveals\">How Colors Affect You: What Science Reveals<\/a> is a six-lecture course on the meaning and psychology of color by Professor William Lidwell of the University of Houston. Available for download or on DVD; watch the website \u2013 periodic sales offer the courses at a fraction of the listed costs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><b>Color and Poetry<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>There are many entrancing color poems &#8211; everything from Walter de la Mare\u2019s magical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemtree.com\/poems\/Silver.htm\">Silver<\/a> to Gelett Burgess\u2019s foolish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/purple-cow\">The Purple Cow<\/a>. Check out some of these:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; height: 1893px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12252 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Hailstones-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Hailstones-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Hailstones-660x1024.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Hailstones-768x1192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Hailstones-990x1536.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Hailstones-1320x2048.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Hailstones.jpg 1611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">Mary O\u2019Neill\u2019s <i>Hailstones and Halibut Bones <\/i>(Doubleday, 1990) is a great resource for potential color-poets: a wonderful illustrated collection of poems about every color of the rainbow (and then some). (\u201cThe purple feeling\/Is rather put-out.\/The purple look is a\/Definite pout.\/But the purple sound\/Is the loveliest thing.\/It\u2019s a violet opening\/In the spring.\u201d) For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 314px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 314px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12266 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Red-Sings-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Red-Sings-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Red-Sings-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Red-Sings-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Red-Sings-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Red-Sings-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Red-Sings.jpg 1863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 314px;\">Joyce Sidman\u2019s <i>Red Sings From Treetops<\/i> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) is an enchantingly illustrated collection of color poems throughout the seasons. (\u201cYellow slips goldfinches\/their spring jackets.\u201d) For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12269 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tan-to-tamarind-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tan-to-tamarind-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tan-to-tamarind.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">Malathi Michelle Iyengar\u2019s <i>Tan to Tamarind: Poems About the Color Brown<\/i> (Children\u2019s Book Press, 2009) is a collection of fifteen poems about the many shades of brown, from tan and beige to honey, cinnamon, and topaz. Illustrations show kids in a wide variety of skin colors. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12235 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/all-colors-of-earth-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/all-colors-of-earth-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/all-colors-of-earth.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">Sheila Hamanaka\u2019s <i>All the Colors of the Earth<\/i> (Mulberry Books, 1999) is a celebration of all the different colors of children everywhere: the brown of \u201croaring bears,\u201d the \u201ctinkling pinks of tiny seashells,\u201d \u201camber and ivory and ginger.\u201d For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81UBC9OhnL-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81UBC9OhnL-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81UBC9OhnL-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81UBC9OhnL-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81UBC9OhnL.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>By Julie Fogliano, <em>When Green Becomes Tomatoes<\/em> (Roaring Brook Press, 2015), is an illustrated collection of poems through the seasons (\u201cjust like a tiny blue hello\/a crocus blooming\/in the snow.\u201d) For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61hxo72LtYL-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61hxo72LtYL-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61hxo72LtYL.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>By Julie Larios, <em>Yellow Elephant<\/em> (Harcourt, 2006) pairs brilliantly colored animal pictures \u2013 yellow elephant, red donkey, white owl, blue turtle \u2013 with short poems. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81O0HsOgt6L-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81O0HsOgt6L-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81O0HsOgt6L-797x1024.jpg 797w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81O0HsOgt6L-768x986.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81O0HsOgt6L-1196x1536.jpg 1196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81O0HsOgt6L.jpg 1399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>By Dianne White, <em>Green on Green<\/em> (Beach Lane Books, 2020) is a colorful rhyming tour through the seasons beginning with the yellows of spring. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 275px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 275px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12242 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-me-a-rhyme-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-me-a-rhyme-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-me-a-rhyme-1024x889.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-me-a-rhyme-768x667.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-me-a-rhyme-1536x1334.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-me-a-rhyme.jpg 1545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 275px;\">Jane Yolen\u2019s <i>Color Me a Rhyme<\/i> (Wordsong, 2003) is a photo-illustrated collection of nature poems for kids. Each page includes a long list of synonyms for the featured color, printed in color, and a color quotation. For ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 77px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 77px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 77px;\">Christina Rosetti\u2019s poem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/171954\">Color<\/a> begins \u201cWhat is pink? A rose is pink\/By a fountain\u2019s brink\u201d \u2013 and ends \u201cWhat is orange? Why, an orange\/Just an orange!\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 95px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 95px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 95px;\">Marge Piercy\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/176836\">Color Passing Through Us<\/a> is a wonderful collection of color images: \u201cPurple as tulips in May,\u201d \u201cYellow as a goat\u2019s wise and wicked eyes,\u201d \u201cGreen as mint jelly.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 40px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 40px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 40px;\">Color from Emily Dickinson: <a href=\"http:\/\/allpoetry.com\/poem\/8441721-Nature-rarer-uses-yellow-by-Emily-Dickinson\">Nature rarer uses yellow<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 40px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 40px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 40px;\">What color are vowels? See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/vowels\/\">Vowels<\/a> by French poet Arthur Rimbaud.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>Color and Science<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12260 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/natures-paintbrush-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/natures-paintbrush-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/natures-paintbrush.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><i>Nature\u2019s Paintbrush <\/i>by Susan Stockdale (Simon &amp; Schuster, 1999) is an appealing picture-book explanation of color and pattern in nature. Kids discover the reasons for the tiger\u2019s orange and black stripes, the toucan\u2019s gaudy beak, and poison-dart frog\u2019s brilliant spots.\u00a0 For ages 3-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12244 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-of-nature-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-of-nature-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/color-of-nature.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty\u2019s <i>The Color of Nature <\/i>(Chronicle Books, 1996) expands upon this theme for older readers: the book is a 150-page assemblage of fascinating information about color, illustrated with photographs. Readers learn why flamingos are pink, why grass is green, why wildflowers are brightly colored, and how to tell the age of a desert from the color of its sand. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12254 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/life-in-color-NG-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/life-in-color-NG-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/life-in-color-NG-1024x997.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/life-in-color-NG-768x747.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/life-in-color-NG-1536x1495.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/life-in-color-NG-2048x1993.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>National Geographic\u2019s hefty <em>Life in Color<\/em> (National Geographic, 2014) is a gorgeous collection of photographs arranged in color-themed chapters. Each includes an essay on the symbolism, meaning, and characteristics of the featured color.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12255 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/light-and-color-gibson-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/light-and-color-gibson-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/light-and-color-gibson.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Gary Gibson\u2019s <i>Light and Color<\/i> (Copper Beech Books, 1995) includes an assortment of color-related hands-on projects and experiments &#8211; among them mixing colors and splitting white light into the colors of the spectrum. For ages 7 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13311 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Color_Analyzer-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Color_Analyzer-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Color_Analyzer.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>From the Lawrence Hall of Science GEMS program, <a href=\"http:\/\/lhsgems.org\/GEM226.html\">Color Analyzers<\/a> is an activity guide in which kids explore many aspects of light and color. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>From the Smithsonian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/why-different-languages-name-different-colors-180964945\/\">The World Has Millions of Colors: Why Do We Only Name a Few?<\/a> Good question. (Invent your own color names?)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>From the San Francisco Exploratorium\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/snacks\/subject\/light-color-and-seeing\">Perception: Light, Color, and Seeing<\/a> has many cool demonstrations and experiments on light and color.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>Learn about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dharmatrading.com\/home\/color-and-dye-chemistry.html\">Color and Dye Chemistry<\/a> while making a tie-dyed T-shirt. (You\u2019ll need to buy materials and T-shirt.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13315 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tie-dye-kit-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tie-dye-kit-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tie-dye-kit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tie-dye-kit-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tie-dye-kit.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>See this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jacquard-JAC9320-Tie-Dye-Kit\/dp\/B0000205WQ\">Jacquard Tie Dye Kit<\/a>, which has enough materials for making up to fifteen tie-dyed shirts. (About $20 from Amazon.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13313 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Marker-Chromatography-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Marker-Chromatography-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Marker-Chromatography-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Marker-Chromatography-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Marker-Chromatography-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Marker-Chromatography.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencenetlinks.com\/lessons\/color-burst\/\">Color Burst<\/a>, kids use paper chromatography to separate dyes into their individual components. (Find out what\u2019s in green.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>From Vimeo, <a href=\"http:\/\/filmmakeriq.com\/courses\/the-history-and-science-of-color-temperature\/\">The History and Science of Color Temperature<\/a> is a series of short videos (plus a quiz). Learn about color and temperature using examples of everything from Spike Lee\u2019s \u201cDo the Right Thing\u201d to the Coen Brothers\u2019 \u201cFargo.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13312 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/flame-test-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/flame-test-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/flame-test-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/flame-test.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homesciencetools.com\/product\/rainbow-fire-kit\/\">Rainbow Fire kit<\/a> can explore flame photometry and learn how astronomers, using color, determine the atomic composition of distant stars. This is incredibly cool, but involves chemicals and matches and requires adult supervision.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>From the Sciences Education Foundation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-ed-ga.org\/chromatics-the-science-of-color\">Chromatics: The Science of Color<\/a> is a downloadable 100+-page unit covering such topics as \u201cSurfing the Electromagnetic Spectrum,\u201d \u201cFireworks and Flame Photometry,\u201d \u201cWhy Plants are Green,\u201d and \u201cChemiluminescence.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>Rainbows<\/b><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12264 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/rainbow-goblins-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/rainbow-goblins-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/rainbow-goblins.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/b>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Ul de Rico\u2019s gorgeously illustrated <i>The Rainbow Goblins<\/i> (Thames &amp; Hudson, 1978) is the wonderful tale of seven goblins (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet) who spend their time lassoing rainbows and eating all the colors. There\u2019s a happy ending for the rainbow, but the story explains why now the rainbow never touches the earth. For ages 5 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b><b><br \/><\/b><\/b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12263 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/rainbow-and-you-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/rainbow-and-you-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/rainbow-and-you.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>E.C. Krupp\u2019s <i>The Rainbow and You <\/i>(HarperCollins, 2000) &#8211; narrated by Roy G. Biv himself, wearing spiffy rainbow-striped socks &#8211; explains the science, history, and lore of the rainbow, plus shows kids how to make a rainbow of their own with the garden hose. For ages 6-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From SciJinks, <a href=\"http:\/\/scijinks.jpl.nasa.gov\/rainbow\/\">What Causes a Rainbow?<\/a> is an illustrated explanation targeted at kids.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>From PBS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5pYnC-ONdXQ\">The Science of Rainbows<\/a> is a friendly account on YouTube.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Learn about <a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/nature\/climate-weather\/storms\/rainbow.htm\">How Rainbows Work<\/a> from How Stuff Works, and view a rainbow image gallery.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13319 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rainbow-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rainbow-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rainbow-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rainbow-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rainbow-1536x989.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rainbow.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/rainbow-science\">Science of Rainbows for Kids<\/a> covers the colors of the rainbow, why rainbows are arc-shaped, primary and secondary rainbows, and more, with photos and animations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencekids.co.nz\/experiments\/makearainbow.html\">Make Your Own Rainbow<\/a> with a glass of water. (And a sunny day.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/chemistry.about.com\/od\/chemistrydemonstrations\/ht\/rainbowinaglass.htm\">How to Make a Rainbow in a Glass<\/a> is a gorgeous experiment in which kids learn about density. Also see Steve Spangler\u2019s impressive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevespanglerscience.com\/lab\/experiments\/seven-layer-density-column\">Seven Layer Density Column<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><b>Color Math<\/b><\/h4>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; height: 1506px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 243px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 243px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12245 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/colors-everywhere-hoban-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/colors-everywhere-hoban-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/colors-everywhere-hoban.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 243px;\">Tana Hoban\u2019s <i>Colors Everywhere <\/i>(Greenwillow, 1995) &#8211; a collection of glowing color photos of everything from striped umbrellas to gaudy birds &#8211; includes bar graphs on each page showing the proportions of the different colors present. For ages 2-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 225px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 225px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12270 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/teddy-bear-counting-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/teddy-bear-counting-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/teddy-bear-counting-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/teddy-bear-counting-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/teddy-bear-counting-1536x1075.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/teddy-bear-counting-2048x1434.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 225px;\">Barbara Barbieri McGrath\u2019s <i>Teddy Bear Counting<\/i> (Charlesbridge, 2010) and <i>Teddy Bear Patterns<\/i> (Charlesbridge, 2013) both use brightly colored teddy bears to teach colors, counting, shapes, sequencing, skip counting, and more. For ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 22px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 22px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 22px;\">Pair these with hands-on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/50-Counting-Bears-5-Cups\/dp\/B0006PKZBI\/\">counting bears<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 247px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 247px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12248 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/crayon-counting-book-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/crayon-counting-book-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/crayon-counting-book-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/crayon-counting-book-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/crayon-counting-book-1536x1187.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/crayon-counting-book.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 247px;\">In <i>The Crayon Counting Book <\/i>by Pam Munoz Ryan and Jerry Pallotta (Charlesbridge, 1996), kids not only learn to count to 24 by 2\u2019s, but discover a whole new world of bizarre colors, among them iguana, purple hairstreak, and emerald boa. (Go on. Invent color names of your own.) For ages 3-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 375px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 375px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13318 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/four-color-map-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/four-color-map-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/four-color-map.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 375px;\">Color-minded mathematicians might enjoy investigating the famous \u201cFour-Color Map Problem,\u201d a mathematical mind-boggler that states that four colors &#8211; just four &#8211; are enough to color any map such that no two regions with a common border will be colored with the same color. (Don\u2019t believe it? Get a ready-to-be-colored outline map and try it.)\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/nrich.maths.org\/6291\">The Four Colour Theorem<\/a>, an illustrated explanation from the University of Cambridge. It\u2019s more complicated than it first sounds.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81Inugp3aTL-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81Inugp3aTL-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81Inugp3aTL-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81Inugp3aTL-768x1167.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81Inugp3aTL-1011x1536.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81Inugp3aTL.jpg 1314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">Robin Wilson\u2019s <em>Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved<\/em> (Princeton University Press, 2013) tells you everything you possibly want to know about the four-color map problem, with numerous anecdotes. (The whole thing started as an April Fool\u2019s joke.) For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 76px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 76px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 76px;\">Hexadecimal numbers are used on web pages to set colors. Experiment with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsisfun.com\/hexadecimal-decimal-colors.html\">Hexadecimal Colors<\/a> (there are 16 million of them) here.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reading Through Roy G Biv<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RED<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.4482%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/712c-5kjZL-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/712c-5kjZL-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/712c-5kjZL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/712c-5kjZL-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/712c-5kjZL.jpg 1013w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5518%;\">\n<p>In Kathy Stinson\u2019s <em>Red is Best<\/em> (Annick Press, 2006), everything red is best \u2013 red mittens, red stockings, red boots, red cups, and more. For ages 3-6.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.4482%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/91jcLqfkA4L-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/91jcLqfkA4L-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/91jcLqfkA4L-865x1024.jpg 865w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/91jcLqfkA4L-768x909.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/91jcLqfkA4L-1298x1536.jpg 1298w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/91jcLqfkA4L.jpg 1476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5518%;\">\n<p>Margaret Wise Brown\u2019s <em>Big Red Barn<\/em> (Baltzer + Bray, 1995) is a gently farmyard story filled with colors. (\u201cBy the big red barn\/In the great green field\/There was a pink pig\/Who was learning to squeal.\u201d) For ages 3-7.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.4482%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780358362609_p0_v2_s550x406-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780358362609_p0_v2_s550x406-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780358362609_p0_v2_s550x406.jpg 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5518%;\">\n<p>In Don and Audrey Wood\u2019s <em>The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear<\/em> (Clarion, 2020), a charmer of a mouse manages to pick and enormous red strawberry \u2013 but now must keep it from the Big Hungry Bear. For ages 3-7.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.4482%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61MJ7hEiXzL-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61MJ7hEiXzL-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61MJ7hEiXzL.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5518%;\">\n<p>Paul Galdone\u2019s <em>The Little Red Hen<\/em> (Clarion, 1985) is the story of the overworked Red Hen who bakes a cake without any help from Cat, Dog, or Mouse \u2013 until it comes time to eat the finished product. For ages 4-7.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.4482%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51yuJ03e5FL-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51yuJ03e5FL-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51yuJ03e5FL.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5518%;\">\n<p>In Michael Hall\u2019s <em>Red: A Crayon\u2019s Story<\/em> (Greenwillow, 2015), a blue crayon is labeled as red \u2013 which leads to all kinds of complications. (He has a terrible time drawing strawberries.) A story of self-discovery for ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.4482%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61MK7gSyhuL-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61MK7gSyhuL-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61MK7gSyhuL.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5518%;\">\n<p>There are many versions of the story of Red Riding Hood, the little girl who sets off with a basket to visit her grandmother and runs into a wolf \u2013 but in all of them, she wears a bright-red cape with a hood. See James Marshall\u2019s <em>Red Riding Hood<\/em> (Picture Puffins, 1993). For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.4482%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71lgBdNFjyL-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71lgBdNFjyL-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71lgBdNFjyL-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71lgBdNFjyL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71lgBdNFjyL-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71lgBdNFjyL.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5518%;\">\n<p>In Norman Bridwell\u2019s <em>Clifford the Big Red Dog<\/em> (Scholastic, 2010), Emily\u2019s dog is REALLY BIG. And very red. Many sequels. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.4482%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/818CvqoyAvL-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/818CvqoyAvL-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/818CvqoyAvL-760x1024.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/818CvqoyAvL-768x1034.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/818CvqoyAvL.jpg 891w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5518%;\">\n<p>In Brenda Maier\u2019s <em>The Little Red Fort<\/em> (Scholastic, 2018), Ruby finds some boards and wants to build a fort \u2013 though her brothers won\u2019t help. Ruby, instead, finds out how to build a fort on her own \u2013 with such great results that her brothers finally pitch in, planting flowers and painting the fort red. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.4482%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781101935217_p0_v1_s550x406-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781101935217_p0_v1_s550x406-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781101935217_p0_v1_s550x406.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5518%;\">\n<p>By Albert Lamorisse, <em>The Red Balloon<\/em> (Doubleday, 1967) is the story of Pascal, a lonely little boy in Paris, and his best friend: a magical red balloon. Illustrated with photographs. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.4482%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780375867125_p0_v4_s1200x630-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780375867125_p0_v4_s1200x630-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780375867125_p0_v4_s1200x630.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5518%;\">\n<p>By Jen Bryant with amazing illustrations by Melissa Sweet, <em>A Splash of Red<\/em> (Knopf, 2013) is a picture-book biography of African-American artist Horace Pippin. For ages 5-8.<\/p>\n<p>Hear Jen Bryant read <em>A Splash of Red<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e1rTZpSV5cU\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.4482%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20934\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61mo-MFbrjL-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61mo-MFbrjL-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61mo-MFbrjL.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5518%;\">\n<p>Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s <em>A Study in Scarlet<\/em>, first published in 1887, is the first to feature Sherlock Holmes and sidekick Dr. Watson, soon to be the most famous detective pair in literature. Available in many editions.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.4482%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81yM1eKjJiL-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81yM1eKjJiL-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81yM1eKjJiL.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.5518%;\">\n<p>Are you a ginger? By Jacky Colliss Harvey, <em>Red<\/em> (Black Dog &amp; Leventhal, 2015) is a history of red hair and red heads \u2013 beginning with a gene mutation that popped up about 30,000 years ago. For teens and adults.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ORANGE<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 1855px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 268px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 268px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20936\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61nnw6IkbGS-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61nnw6IkbGS-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61nnw6IkbGS-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61nnw6IkbGS-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61nnw6IkbGS-768x763.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/61nnw6IkbGS.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 268px;\">\n<p>By Howard Pearlstein, in <em>Orange Porange<\/em> (Marshall Cavendish, 2020), all the colors have rhymes \u2013 except poor Orange. For ages 3-6.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 270px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20937\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71Q1CEjGtvL-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71Q1CEjGtvL-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71Q1CEjGtvL-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71Q1CEjGtvL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71Q1CEjGtvL-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71Q1CEjGtvL.jpg 1399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 270px;\">\n<p>By Dianne White, <em>Who Eats Orange?<\/em> (Beach Lane Books, 2018) is an exploration of color through animals\u2019 favorite foods. (Rabbits, chickens, and goats eat orange; gorillas, giraffes, and zebras eat green.) For ages 3-7.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 226px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 226px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/914vGHLpd8L-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/914vGHLpd8L-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/914vGHLpd8L-1024x847.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/914vGHLpd8L-768x635.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/914vGHLpd8L-1536x1271.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/914vGHLpd8L.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 226px;\">\n<p>In Daniel Pinkwater\u2019s <em>The Big Orange Splot<\/em>, all the houses on Mr. Plumbeam\u2019s street look just the same \u2013 until a seagull dropped a can of orange paint on Mr. Plumbean\u2019s roof, creating a big orange splot. It\u2019s the beginning of an artistic explosion. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 317px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 317px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/519CytDxRNL-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/519CytDxRNL-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/519CytDxRNL.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 317px;\">\n<p>By Alma Flor Ada, <em>The Three Golden Oranges<\/em> (Atheneum, 2012) is a retelling of a Spanish folk tale in which three brothers wish to find brides. They seek the advice of an old woman who sends them to a distant castle to pick three golden oranges and bring them to her \u2013 and then each will find the wife he desires. But only if they follow her advice. For ages 5-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 412px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 412px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/8106h-cjgOS-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/8106h-cjgOS-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/8106h-cjgOS-838x1024.jpg 838w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/8106h-cjgOS-768x939.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/8106h-cjgOS-1257x1536.jpg 1257w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/8106h-cjgOS.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 412px;\">\n<p>In Trinka Hakes Noble\u2019s <em>The Orange Shoes<\/em> (Sleeping Bear Press, 2007), Delly Porter, who loves art, comes from a poor family and always walks barefoot to school. When her teacher, Miss Violet, comes up with a plan for a Shoebox Social to raise money for school art supplies, Delly\u2019s father manages to buy her a new pair of orange shoes \u2013 which bullies on the playground do their best to destroy. Delly, however, with talent and paint, turns her shoes and shoebox into something beautiful. For ages 5-9.<\/p>\n<p>See this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.btsb.com\/libcorner\/lp\/OrangeShoes.pdf\">activity guide<\/a> to accompany <em>The Orange Shoes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 362px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 44.1379%; height: 362px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/41mN6FBCVGL._SX316_BO1204203200_-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/41mN6FBCVGL._SX316_BO1204203200_-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/41mN6FBCVGL._SX316_BO1204203200_.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 55.8621%; height: 362px;\">\n<p>Anthony Burgess\u2019s <em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em> (W.W. Norton, 2019) is a horrifying vision of the future narrated by Alex, sadistic leader of a violent teenage gang of droogs, who speaks in invented slang. Eventually Alex, apprehended and imprisoned for his crimes, is subjected to the Ludovico technique, a form of aversion therapy intended to convert him into a model citizen. For ages 15 and up.<\/p>\n<p>See these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shmoop.com\/clockwork-orange\/questions.html\">discussion questions<\/a> to accompany <em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">YELLOW<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 502px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 134px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 43.1034%; height: 134px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81dk9x1nHtL-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81dk9x1nHtL-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81dk9x1nHtL-839x1024.jpg 839w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81dk9x1nHtL-768x937.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81dk9x1nHtL-1259x1536.jpg 1259w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81dk9x1nHtL.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.8966%; height: 134px;\">\n<p>Lauren Stringer\u2019s <em>Yellow Time<\/em> (Beach Lane Books, 2016) is a lovely celebration of the coming of autumn \u2013 the \u201cyellow time.\u201d For ages 3-6.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 159px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 43.1034%; height: 159px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51mgqC-yxgL-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51mgqC-yxgL-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51mgqC-yxgL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51mgqC-yxgL.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.8966%; height: 159px;\">\n<p>Lois Ehlert\u2019s <em>Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf<\/em> (HMH, 1991) is the story of the life of a sugar maple tree. (Included are instructions for making a bird treat.) For ages 4-7.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 209px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 43.1034%; height: 209px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20944\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51ZcR9lo1FL._AC_UL600_SR600600_-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51ZcR9lo1FL._AC_UL600_SR600600_-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51ZcR9lo1FL._AC_UL600_SR600600_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51ZcR9lo1FL._AC_UL600_SR600600_.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.8966%; height: 209px;\">\n<p>Christopher Devendorf\u2019s <em>The Little Yellow Bus<\/em> (CreateSpace, 2010) is a multifaceted picture book in which readers are challenged to read words, identify shapes and colors, learn days of the week, and more. It begins with children boarding a bright-yellow school bus. For ages 4-7.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.1034%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/41u8dNfItWL._SX258_BO1204203200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"275\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.8966%;\">\n<p>Chris Robertson\u2019s <em>My Yellow Umbrella<\/em> is the story of an imaginative little girl and a yellow umbrella. (\u201cMy yellow umbrella is\/warm like summer sun\/Cozy like an afternoon nap\/And happy like a picnic in the park.\u201d) Will make everyone want a yellow umbrella. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.1034%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51btDgkMCfL._SX380_BO1204203200_-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51btDgkMCfL._SX380_BO1204203200_-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51btDgkMCfL._SX380_BO1204203200_.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.8966%;\">\n<p>William Stieg\u2019s <em>Yellow and Pink<\/em> (Square Fish, 1988) features a pair of puppets \u2013 one yellow and one pink \u2013 who debate their origins: are they the result of a series of natural processes or did someone create them? Discussion potential for ages 5-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.1034%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71bwS5jMpL._SX346_BO1204203200_-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71bwS5jMpL._SX346_BO1204203200_-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71bwS5jMpL._SX346_BO1204203200_.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.8966%;\">\n<p>By Chris Riddell, <em>Ottoline the Yellow Cat<\/em> (Pan Macmillan, 2015) is the first of a chapter-book series starring Ottoline Brown, amateur detective, and her partner, Mr. Munroe, a strange little creature (from a Norwegian bog) who disguises himself as a dog. In this story, they come up against the nefarious Yellow Cat. Funny and clever, for ages 7-9.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.1034%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/03823_1_ftc_dp-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/03823_1_ftc_dp-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/03823_1_ftc_dp.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.8966%;\">\n<p>By Fred Gipson, <em>Old Yeller<\/em> (Harper Perennial, 2009), set in early frontier Texas, is the story of young Travis, left to care for family and farm while his father is off on a cattle drive. He does so with the help of a stray yellow dog, dubbed Old Yeller. A classic and a tearjerker for ages 10 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.1034%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2a8f6ec0-1b91-43d1-a441-c41c169932f6_1.f66f84d111fc26acca8f14b6f58adc7c-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2a8f6ec0-1b91-43d1-a441-c41c169932f6_1.f66f84d111fc26acca8f14b6f58adc7c-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2a8f6ec0-1b91-43d1-a441-c41c169932f6_1.f66f84d111fc26acca8f14b6f58adc7c.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.8966%;\">\n<p>The 1957 Disney movie version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050798\/\">Old Yeller<\/a> is rated \u201capproved.\u201d A wonderful dog. Just be prepared to cry.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 43.1034%;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56.8966%;\">\n<p>For more resources, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/woof-all-about-dogs\/\">WOOF! All About Dogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GREEN<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 2219px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 184px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 45.3448%; height: 184px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71I1-gf5DiL-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71I1-gf5DiL-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71I1-gf5DiL-1024x922.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71I1-gf5DiL-768x691.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71I1-gf5DiL.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.6552%; height: 184px;\">\n<p>By Mem Fox, <em>Where Is the Green Sheep?<\/em> (Harcourt, 2004) is filled with colorful sheep \u2013 in the bath, in bed, on the slide, juggling balls, even on the moon \u2013 but where is the green sheep? For ages 3-7.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 159px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 45.3448%; height: 159px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20951\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781452156453_p0_v2_s1200x630-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781452156453_p0_v2_s1200x630-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781452156453_p0_v2_s1200x630-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781452156453_p0_v2_s1200x630.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.6552%; height: 159px;\">\n<p>By Roseanne Greenfield Thong, <em>Green is a Chile Pepper<\/em> (Chronicle Books, 2016) is a rhyming book of Latino culture and colors. (Readers also learn the names of the colors in Spanish.) For ages 3-6.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 159px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 45.3448%; height: 159px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71tIPYq-YhL-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71tIPYq-YhL-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71tIPYq-YhL-751x1024.jpg 751w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71tIPYq-YhL-768x1047.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71tIPYq-YhL.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.6552%; height: 159px;\">\n<p>In Dr. Seuss\u2019s classic <em>Green Eggs and Ham<\/em> (Random House, 1960), the main character insists to the persistent Sam-I-am, that he DOES NOT LIKE green eggs and ham. For ages 3-7.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 109px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 45.3448%; height: 109px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.6552%; height: 109px;\">\n<p>For more resources (and a green eggs and ham recipe), see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/eggs\/\">EGGS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 184px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 45.3448%; height: 184px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20953\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780823444885_p0_v1_s1200x630-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780823444885_p0_v1_s1200x630-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780823444885_p0_v1_s1200x630.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.6552%; height: 184px;\">\n<p>Antoinette Portis\u2019s <em>A New Green Day<\/em> (Neal Porter Books, 2020) is a clever picture-book collection of poetic riddles about the natural world. (\u201cI\u2019m a map of my own\/green home. Follow my roads, and climb\u201d\u2026says leaf.) For ages 3-7.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 259px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 45.3448%; height: 259px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/616LKQoFFaL-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/616LKQoFFaL-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/616LKQoFFaL.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.6552%; height: 259px;\">\n<p>Eve Bunting\u2019s <em>One Green Apple<\/em> (Clarion, 2006) is the story of Farah, a young Muslim immigrant just learning to speak English \u2013 who, on a class trip to a cider mill, puts a green apple rather than a red one into the cider press. The cider, however, is delicious \u2013 the lesson being that many different kinds of people blend together to make a better whole. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 214px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 45.3448%; height: 214px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81qNm1q4JL-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81qNm1q4JL-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81qNm1q4JL-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81qNm1q4JL-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81qNm1q4JL.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.6552%; height: 214px;\">\n<p>In Lane Smith\u2019s <em>Grandpa Green<\/em> (Roaring Brook Press, 2011), a young boy tells the story of his great-grandfather\u2019s life while wandering through his marvelous topiary garden. For ages 5-9.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 317px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 45.3448%; height: 317px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/416h2QFKmKL._AC_SY780_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/416h2QFKmKL._AC_SY780_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/416h2QFKmKL._AC_SY780_.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.6552%; height: 317px;\">\n<p>In Judy Blume\u2019s <em>The One In the Middle is the Green Kangaroo<\/em> (Atheneum, 2014), Freddy Dissel feels squashed between his older brother Mike and younger sister Ellen \u2013 it\u2019s hard being a middle kid \u2013 until he lands the part of the Green Kangaroo in the school play. For ages 6-9.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 317px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 45.3448%; height: 317px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781534427914_p0_v3_s550x406-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781534427914_p0_v3_s550x406-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781534427914_p0_v3_s550x406.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.6552%; height: 317px;\">\n<p>By J. Anderson Coats, <em>The Green Children of Woolpit<\/em> (Atheneum, 2020), based on a medieval English folk tale, is the story of two strange green children found in a wolf pit by twelve-year-old Agnes. The children are of the Fair Folk, there to convince dreamy and trusting Agnes to come to their underground world \u2013 which soon proves to be a dark and treacherous place. For ages 10 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 317px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 45.3448%; height: 317px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81PNrY1xwkS-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81PNrY1xwkS-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81PNrY1xwkS-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81PNrY1xwkS-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81PNrY1xwkS.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.6552%; height: 317px;\">\n<p>There are many available versions of the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in which a mysterious knight, green from head to toe, challenges King Arthur\u2019s knights of the Round Table to a dangerous duel. By Weston Ochise, <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/em> (Dark Moon Books, 2021) is a modern translation of the classic story. For teens and adults.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BLUE<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.1724%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51YBN1G7VwL-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51YBN1G7VwL-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51YBN1G7VwL.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.8276%;\">\n<p>The main character of Alice Schertle\u2019s <em>Little Blue Truck<\/em> (HMH, 2008) is an adorable little blue pick-up \u2013 who gets stuck in the mud trying to help a large mean dump truck, but is ultimately rescued with the help of a lot of farm animal friends. And the dump truck learns a lesson about friendship. For ages 4-7.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.1724%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blue-on-blue-9781442412675_hr-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blue-on-blue-9781442412675_hr-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blue-on-blue-9781442412675_hr-761x1024.jpg 761w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blue-on-blue-9781442412675_hr-768x1034.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blue-on-blue-9781442412675_hr-1141x1536.jpg 1141w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blue-on-blue-9781442412675_hr.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.8276%;\">\n<p>Dianne White\u2019s <em>Blue on Blue<\/em> (Beach Lane Books, 2014) is a simple rhyming account of coming rain and thunderstorm, beautifully illustrated with scratchboard-and-watercolor pictures. (\u201cCotton clouds. Morning light.\/Blue on blue. White on white.\u201d) For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.1724%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51zMsAlds8L-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51zMsAlds8L-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/51zMsAlds8L.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.8276%;\">\n<p>Tomie dePaola\u2019s <em>The Legend of the Bluebonnet<\/em> (Puffin, 1996) is the picture-book version of a Comanche story in which a little girl sacrifices her most beloved possession to bring desperately needed rain to her people. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.1724%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781596434691_p0_v1_s1200x630-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781596434691_p0_v1_s1200x630-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781596434691_p0_v1_s1200x630.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.8276%;\">\n<p>In Cathleen Daly\u2019s <em>Emily\u2019s Blue Period<\/em> (Neal Porter Books, 2014), Emily, a budding artist, is an admirer of Picasso \u2013 and when her parents divorce, she decides, like Picasso when he was sad, to paint only in blue. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.1724%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81NitSxUIUL-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81NitSxUIUL-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81NitSxUIUL-746x1024.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81NitSxUIUL-768x1054.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81NitSxUIUL-1119x1536.jpg 1119w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81NitSxUIUL.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.8276%;\">\n<p>In Doreen Cronin\u2019s <em>The Case of the Weird Blue Chicken<\/em> (Atheneum, 2016), one of the Chicken Squad series, the Chicken Squad \u2013 Dirt, Sugar, Poppy, and Sweetie \u2013 are out to solve mysteries and fight crime. This one involves a weird blue bird and a house-napping. For ages 6-10.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.1724%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71RDrLCEAkL-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71RDrLCEAkL-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71RDrLCEAkL-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71RDrLCEAkL-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71RDrLCEAkL.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.8276%;\">\n<p>By Rebecca Rupp, <em>Journey to the Blue Moon<\/em> (Candlewick, 2006) is the story of a fantastical trip to the Blue Moon where all lost things go. Alex and his dog Zeke, with the help of some rambunctious Moon Rats and other lost travelers, are on a mission to find lost time. For ages 9-12.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.1724%;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.8276%;\">\n<p>For more on blue (and other) moons, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/all-about-the-moon\/\">THE MOON.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.1724%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20965\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/711AVuP5VpL-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/711AVuP5VpL-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/711AVuP5VpL.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.8276%;\">\n<p>In Niki Smith\u2019s graphic novel <em>The Deep and Dark Blue<\/em> (Little, Brown, 2020), twins Hawke and Grayson\u2019s royal family has been destroyed in a political coup. Taking on new identities as Hanna and Grayce, the two find their way to the Communion of Blue, an order of magical women who spin the mystical threads that bind the world. For ages 10 and up.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PURPLE<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.5172%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781773210339_p0_v1_s1200x630-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781773210339_p0_v1_s1200x630-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781773210339_p0_v1_s1200x630-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781773210339_p0_v1_s1200x630.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.4828%;\">\n<p>By Robert Munsch, <em>Purple, Green and Yellow<\/em> (Annick Press, 2018) is the story of Brigid, who wants washable markers, scented markers, and \u2013 oh-oh &#8211; \u201csuper-indelible, never-come-off-until-you\u2019re-dead-and-maybe-even-later\u201d markers. For ages 4-7.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.5172%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780060229351__13112.1607043787-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780060229351__13112.1607043787-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780060229351__13112.1607043787-827x1024.jpg 827w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780060229351__13112.1607043787-768x951.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9780060229351__13112.1607043787.jpg 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.4828%;\">\n<p>In Crockett Johnson\u2019s <em>Harold and the Purple Crayon<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2015), Harold, armed with a magical purple crayon, goes for an imaginative walk in the moonlight. First he draws the moon \u2013 and next a long straight path, so that he won\u2019t get lost. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.5172%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Lillys-Purple-Plastic-Purse-by-Kevin-Henkes-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Lillys-Purple-Plastic-Purse-by-Kevin-Henkes-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Lillys-Purple-Plastic-Purse-by-Kevin-Henkes.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.4828%;\">\n<p>By Kevin Henkes, in <em>Lilly\u2019s Purple Plastic Purse<\/em> (Greenwillow, 2006), Lilly\u2019s most beloved possession is her purple plastic purse \u2013 which she can\u2019t resist showing off, interrupting Mr. Slinger\u2019s lesson about Types of Cheese. When her purse is confiscated, Lilly, furious, draws a picture of Big Fat Mean Mr. Stealing Teacher \u2013 but then she finds the understanding note that he left in her purse. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.5172%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81Avf4vQGkL-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81Avf4vQGkL-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81Avf4vQGkL-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81Avf4vQGkL-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81Avf4vQGkL-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81Avf4vQGkL.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.4828%;\">\n<p>By Leonard Kessler, in <em>Mr. Pine\u2019s Purple House<\/em> (Purple House Press, 2014), Mr. Pine lives in a street of plain white houses \u2013 so he decides to make his stand out. He paints it purple. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.5172%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71aAdo2c-gL-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71aAdo2c-gL-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/71aAdo2c-gL.jpg 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.4828%;\">\n<p>One of Gertrude Chandler Warner\u2019s Boxcar Children series, in <em>The Mystery of the Purple Pool<\/em> (Albert Whitman &amp; Company, 1994) the Alden kids go to New York City and tackle a mystery in their\u00a0 hotel \u2013 including a prankster who has dyed the hotel swimming pool purple. For ages 7-10.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.5172%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781368032841_p0_v2_s1200x630-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781368032841_p0_v2_s1200x630-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/9781368032841_p0_v2_s1200x630.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.4828%;\">\n<p>By Tami Lewis Brown and Debbie Loren Dunn, <em>Perkin\u2019s Perfect Purple<\/em> (Little, Brown, 2020) is the story of how young chemist William Perkin failed at making a synthetic quinine \u2013 a drug used to treat malaria \u2013 but by mistake came up with purple aniline dyes. For ages 4-8.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.5172%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81M7pOhavLL-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81M7pOhavLL-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81M7pOhavLL-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81M7pOhavLL-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81M7pOhavLL-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/81M7pOhavLL.jpg 1161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.4828%;\">\n<p>Simon Garfield\u2019s <em>Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World<\/em> (W.W. Norton, 2002) is the story of Perkin and his marvelous purple dye for teens and adults.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 45.5172%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/41Ky-fvF1OL._SX330_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/41Ky-fvF1OL._SX330_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/41Ky-fvF1OL._SX330_BO1204203200_.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 54.4828%;\">\n<p>Alice Walker\u2019s <em>The Color Purple<\/em> (Penguin, 2019) \u2013 winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award \u2013 is the story, told in letters, of two African American women, sisters, Celie and Nettie, in early 20<sup>th<\/sup>-century rural George. 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