Fifteen children's book artists share their favorite colors and explain why they love them.

Do you have a favorite color? What makes it your favorite? Do you often wear clothes that color? Do you think your friends and family know what it is? Amber is happy about painting a picture using her favorite color in school. But she forgot her watercolors at home. Now she has to borrow paint from her classmates to finish her painting. How can Amber borrow paint from her classmates and keep her favorite color a secret? With the author's included questions, What's Your Favorite Color? is both fun and a useful teaching and discussion tool.

What's the BEST color? Pascal, the well-intentioned platypus, decides to pick . . . Pascal wants to bring all of his favorite outdoor colors home! His big idea: to paint his room. But which color to choose? Each of his friends are sure there's only one best color—their favorite! Pascal paints, paints, and re-paints till all he's got is a mish-mosh! Kids will get to explore each color makeover with flaps that let them peek into Pascal's closet, cabinets, dresser, and even the bathtub! This fun way to "teach" color goes beyond simple blue/yellow/pink, etc. to more sophisticated ideas about color's natural and emotional connections. Whether they're meeting Pascal for the very first time or rejoining him and his friends in this third adventure, kids will delight in this silly-messy-splattery colorful fun-for-all!

The Caldecott Honor–winning creator of the Journey trilogy celebrates color and nature with a joyously simple die-cut book. People always ask for your favorite color. But who said you can only have one? Open this gorgeous board book to find an ode to ever-changing colors, offering a spectrum of hues evoking the sun, the sea, clouds, and dew-dappled fruit. In colorful grids of small squares—some translucent inserts, some painted on the page—Aaron Becker uses layering to make colors shift and transition from spread to mesmerizing spread. As fun to look at as an alluring paint-chip display and as inspiring as an artful concept book can be, My Favorite Color promises to be a favorite, well-thumbed read and a prized art object in itself.

The author shows how color was used in ancient civilizations, its applications in healing traditions, and the ways it is currently used to affect mood and behavior.

From the creator of the all-time classic VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR comes a sweetly resonant story about the power of friendship--now available for little hands When a best friend moves away, it can be painful for the child who is left behind. But the spunky boy in this upbeat story makes up his mind to find his missing playmate. Friends tells a story alive with love and perseverance, brightened with vibrant art and Eric Carle's trademark fostering of imagination. Praise for Friends: “This story of love and determination is illustrated with Carle's extraordinary signature artwork. For anyone who would cross rivers and scale mountains for a beloved friend, this warmhearted story will create an emotional response. Young readers will learn the value of friendship and its many challenges.” —School Library Journal “Often dynamic and quite beautiful . . . A picture-book tribute to the strength of childhood friendships.” —Booklist

Using click-to-count buttons, kids will love learning their colors as they poke the dots on every page!