30 Titles All About Colors

I just finished watching the first season of Get Organized with The Home Edit on Netflix. It’s a fun show to watch to get inspired to organize your home, especially since we spend so much time there right now! Their love of organizing things in ROYGBIV is what inspired today’s post – 30 Titles All About Colors.

Now, I’ll be the first to tell you that I will never, ever organize my books by color. That format, although looks nice, wouldn’t work for my space or my brain. My books are organized more by audience or age level and then it different spaces depending on what I’m blogging about, my personal favorites, books that I don’t mind little kids reading when they come over and my partner’s books too. Interfiling picture books and adult fiction makes me a little itchy, for a lack of a better adjective. And yes, as a librarian I actually keep my row of picture books alphabetical by author’s last name. Probably because I don’t have kids who will actually mess it up right now!

Anyway, there are probably hundreds of books about color for kids out there. Check out my 6-week storytime series focused on colors! (You’ll find it in the “Toddler Themes” section). I tried to pull together a list of some fun read alouds that include classics, nonfiction titles, some off-the-wall options, and some diverse books too!

30 Titles All About Colors

1. Baby Bear Sees Blue by Ashley Wolff
2. Black Bird Yellow Sun by Steve Light
3. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr., illustrated by Eric Carle
4. Cat’s Colors by Jane Cabrera
5. A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
6. The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons by Natascha Biebow, illustrated by Steven Salerno
7. The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
8. The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer’s Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tony Persiani
9. The Deep Blue Sea: A Book of Colors by Audrey Wood, illustrated by Bruce Wood
10. Dog’s Colorful Day: A Messy Story About Colors and Counting by Emma Dodd
11. Festival of Colors by Kabir Sehgal and Surishtha Sehgal, illustrated by Vashti Harrison
12. Freight Train by Donald Crews
13. Go Away Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley
14. Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors by Roseanne Thong, illustrated by John Parra
15. I Dream of an Elephant by Ami Rubinger
16. Lemons Are Not Red by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
17. Mix It Up! by Hervé Tullet
18. Mixed: A Colorful Story by Arree Chung
19. Monsteres Love Colors by Mike Austin
20. Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
21. My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss, illustrated by Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson
22. Neon Leon by Jane Clarke, illustrated by Britta Teckentrup
23. Pink Is for Boys by Robb Pearlman, illustrated by Eda Kaban
24. Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
25. Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall
26. Red House, Tree House, Little Bitty Brown Mouse by Jane Godwin, illustrated by Blanca Gomez
27. Red Is a Dragon: A Book of Colors by Roseanne Thong, illustrated by Grace Lin
28. Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
29. Swatch: The Girl Who Loved Color by Julia Denos
30. They Say Blue by Jillian Tamaki

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