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BrownIllustrations by Howard Simpson Meet the Color Family... Colors are everywhere you look,And each color has a name:Red, yellow, blue, Orange, purple, green, Let’s play the Color Gam

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e-ISBN 1-59019-162-5 Library of Congress Cataloging Number: 91-76333

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Book of Colors

written by Margery W Brown

Illustrations by Howard Simpson

Meet the Color Family

Colors are everywhere you look,And each color has a name:

Red, yellow, blue,

Orange, purple, green,

Let’s play the Color Game!

The color RED helps keep us safe.

Red means danger; Red says, “STOP!”

Do what these signs tell you,And you’ll always stay on top.

YELLOW is the color of a warning light,And of a banana you peel and eat.

There are yellow stars twinkling in the night,And yellow daffodils that smell so sweet.

BLUE is the color of the ocean.Blue is the color of the sky.

And Nandi’s balloon is colored blue.It’s the biggest one she could buy.

Colors are magic!

Just see what you can do

Make a third color by mixing two

Red mixed with yellow makes ORANGE.

Blue mixed with yellow makes GREEN.

Red mixed with blue makes PURPLE.

Now, that’s the neatest trick I’ve seen!

BROWN is the color

of many people

Whom you know

And brown is the color of the basketball you throw.

BLACK is the color of Tura’scornrowed hair.

And of those shiny shoesThat she likes to wear

When it snows, all the world looks WHITE.

And kids have fun at winter play,

With snowmen or a snowball fight,

Or riding downhill on a sleigh

On a cold and rainy day

GRAY is the color of the sky

Stef s gray cap and scarf and glovesHelp to keep him warm and dry

Summer colors are bright and gay.

When school is out, it’s time to playand time now to play the Color Game.How many colors can you name?

Stef, the artist, is quite proud

of his picture, you can see

He put all of his colors

just where they ought to be