Orem Library

When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.

Spot, a polka-dot leopard who can change colors and even juggle his own spots, tries to convince two children that he is special enough to be exhibited in the zoo.

Cars and trucks introduce simple concepts such as color and size.

Little blue and little yellow share wonderful adventures. One day, they can't find one another. When they finally meet, they are overjoyed. They hug until they become green. But where did little blue and little yellow go? Are they lost?

The chameleon doesn't appreciate what makes him special and wishes he could be like other animals.

The reader is led through a bountiful vegetable garden in autumn, seeing the variety of colors found within it.

One by one, a series of animals disappears into the background, until, with the lights turned on, each animal searches for the next in line.

A little chameleon is distressed that he doesn't have his own color like other animals.

Although they are many different colors, the crayons in a box discover that when they get together they can appreciate each other and make a complete picture.

Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes biographical information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s.