Color is a lot more complicated than you might think.Ĭolor Matters is a website devoted to all aspects of color, including color symbolism, color psychology, color vision, and the science of color, plus lists of color resources. Try a color essay of your own! For teenagers and adults.įrom the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, see Color for philosophers. For tees and adults.Īlexander Theroux’s The Primary Colors and The Secondary Colors (Henry Holt, 1996) are two essay collections, both fascinating compilations of everything ( everything!) having to do with red, blue, yellow, orange, purple, or green. Learn all about logwood, saffron, indigo, and lapis lazuli. Victoria Finlay’s Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Random House, 2007) is a fascinating exploration of pigments worldwide, filled with intriguing info. Readers learn – among much else – why grass is green and flamingos are pink, where yellow journalism comes from, and why doctors wear green scrubs. Joann Eckstut’s The Secret Language of Color (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2013) is a lushly illustrated history and science of color. Included in each is a short color glossary. For ages 4-7.īy Mari Schuh, the Crayola World of Color series (Lerner, 2019), includes World of Blue, Red, Green, Orange, Yellow, and Purple, each filled with colorful photos. Colors are paired with the days of the week, as a little girl dons different-colored footgear for each day’s activity: green gardening clogs, red cowboy boots, yellow beach sandals, pink ballet slippers. For ages 3-7.Īnita Lobel’s One Lighthouse, One Moon (Greenwillow, 2002) is an enchanting multifaceted introduction to colors, numbers (1-10), the days of the week, the seasons, and the months of the year. In Patricia Hubbard’s My Crayons Talk (Henry Holt, 1999), a little girl discovers colors through a very vocal box of talking crayons (Brown shouts “Play! Mudpie day!”). Bruce McMillan’s Growing Colors (Mulberry Books, 1994) is set in the garden, where readers find colors in luscious photographs of green peas, yellow corn, purple beans, and red raspberries.

Growing Colors by Bruce McMillan