Explores the many different shades of human skin, and points out that skin is just a covering that does not reveal what someone is like inside.

"The Gardener's Color Palette features ten plants in ten color groups and offers gardeners hundreds of opportunities to mix and match. Want a red garden? Choose the 'Crimson Star' columbine, the 'Lucifer' crocosmia, and the 'Gardenview Scarlet' bee balm. For a metallic garden plant the Japanese cobra lily, the Chocolate cosmos, and the Kamchatka fritillary. Or, create a multicolored array by picking plants from each category. Plant profiles include...

A Chinese American girl provides rhyming descriptions of the great variety of colors she sees around her, from the red of a dragon, firecrackers, and lychees to the brown of her teddy bear.

Sue's blue paint and Fred's red paint get mixed together and create purple, the best color of all.

Explains why leaves change color in the fall, discussing photosynthesis, chlorophyll, leaf pigments, and which trees turn which colors.

The award-winning author/illustrator of the Heads and Tails series introduces readers to a multi-tiered new "concept book about shape and color sorting and object identification. With fresh and appealing illustrations and a striking design, this is a concept book with longevity." --

The Crayons want to go trick-or-treating, but they're not sure what to say! In a humorous Halloween story, Purple Crayon teaches the rest of the crayon box the magic words to say when they ring their neighbors' doorbells.