LibGuides: Preschool Skills Picture Books: Color Books

Colors

Colors come up in several places in children's nonfiction, but for just introducing the colors and not verging into how to use them, there isn't much that can beat a picture book. Check out one of the titles below!

The Color Monster by Anna Llenas
Call Number: J PICTURE LLENA 2018
ISBN: 9780316450010
Publication Date: 2018-09-04
A monster who changes color with his emotions sorts through his feelings with a friend's help.
Mixed: a Colorful Story by Arree Chung (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE CHUNG 2018
ISBN: 9781250142733
Publication Date: 2018-07-03
In a world where the primary colors try to stay separate at all times, two different colors find each other and begin to change the world.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Easter Colors by Eric Carle (Illustrator)
Call Number: J BB CARLE 2016
ISBN: 9780451533470
Publication Date: 2017-01-17
The Very Hungry Caterpillar features in an Easter-themed celebration of color.
Every Color by Erin Eitter Kono
Call Number: J PICTURE KONO 2016
ISBN: 9780803741324
Publication Date: 2016-11-15
A girl and a polar bear take a world tool to help the bear learn to see colors around him.
The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt; Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE DAYWA 2015
ISBN: 9780399172755
Publication Date: 2015-08-18
A boy receives postcards from absent crayons who want to return home.
P. Zonka Lays an Egg by Julie Paschkis (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE PASCH 2015
ISBN: 9781561458196
Publication Date: 2015-03-01
P. Zonka the hen is too busy watching the colors of the world to lay eggs. Is this laziness, or does she know something the other hens don't?
Sugar White Snow and Evergreens by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky; Susan Swan (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE CHERN 2014
ISBN: 9780807572344
Publication Date: 2014-09-01
A bear family sees the colors of winter as they visit a maple-sugaring farm.
Little Green Peas by Keith Baker (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE BAKER 2014
ISBN: 9781442476608
Publication Date: 2014-07-22
See the colors all around,
Snow, balloons and skis,
But on every page are found
Little green peas!
It's an Orange Aardvark! by Michael Hall (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE HALL 2014
ISBN: 9780062252067
Publication Date: 2014-04-22
A carpenter ant makes holes to peek outside his stump - but with every hole he makes, he sees a new color, and with every color he sees, he becomes more worried about the creature outside.
Yellow Is My Color Star by Judy Horacek (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE HORAC 2014
ISBN: 9781442492998
Publication Date: 2014-01-07
A child celebrates all the world's colors - especially their favorite, yellow.
First Colors by Tiger Tales Staff (Created by)
Call Number: J BB FIRST 2013
ISBN: 9781589256330
Publication Date: 2013-03-01
A very first lift-the-flap look at colors.
My Blue Is Happy by Jessica Young; Cátia Chien (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE YOUNG 2013
ISBN: 9780763651251
Publication Date: 2013-08-06
Does blue have to be sad? Is green always jealous? Find out why not in this look at how we feel about what we see.
Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE AUSTI 2103
ISBN: 9780062125941
Publication Date: 2013-02-05
See how colors combine with the help of crayon-wielding monsters!
Sky Color by Peter H. Reynolds (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE REYNO 2012
ISBN: 9780763623456
Publication Date: 2012-08-28
Marisol's love of painting makes her excited to help with a mural for the school library, but how can she paint the sky without blue paint?
10 Hungry Rabbits by Anita Lobel; Tim Bowers (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE LOBEL 2012
ISBN: 9780375868641
Publication Date: 2012-02-14
The little rabbits are hungry, but the soup pot is empty! Look at numbers and colors as each little rabbit looks in the garden for something tasty and colorful to put in the soup.
The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE CARLE 2011
ISBN: 9780399257131
Publication Date: 2011-10-04
A child breaks the mold by painting animals in a new set of colors, beginning with a blue horse.
Blue Chameleon by Emily Gravett (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE GRAVE 2011
ISBN: 9781442419582
Publication Date: 2011-03-08
A lonely chameleon visits animals and objects in all kinds of colors to try to cheer up.
Baby's Colors by Karen Katz (Illustrator)
Call Number: J BB KATZ 2010
ISBN: 9781416998211
Publication Date: 2010-08-03
A first introduction to colors for very small children.
Red Sings from Treetops by Joyce Sidman; Pamela Zagarenski (Illustrator)
Call Number: J CALDECOT SIDMA 2009
ISBN: 9780547014944
Publication Date: 2009-04-06
Marvel at an entire year of poetic colors.
The Deep Blue Sea by Audrey Wood; Bruce Robert Wood (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE WOOD 2005
ISBN: 9780439753821
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
It may be a rock in the deep blue sea, but there is a lot more color to it than that!
A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni (Illustrator)
Call Number: J PICTURE LIONN 2003
ISBN: 9780375836978
Publication Date: 2006-06-13
Where can a chameleon with no color of his own belong? One is about to find out.
Put Me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire
Call Number: J BB LOPSH 2001
ISBN: 9780375812156
Publication Date: 2001-11-27
A creature with color-changing spots is rejected by the zoo - but is there a better place for him?