The Shape Story 4

Apples, strawberries, and cherries

are red, red, and red.

Wait! How can they be just "RED"

when they are different kinds of RED? 

Colors are a treasure worthy to be displayed in a museum! And they are in the Color Story. So many colorful hues with their shades, tines, and tones have been collected most passionately by the most unlikely friends...Shapes! Yes, Shapes! These are the most endearing outlines of geometric shapes you will ever meet. They can run, walk, and touch. They can think and feel. And with their big, large eyes, they can behold everything, even the beauty of colors. But they have a problem. They have found themselves stuck with an ever-present question mark. What are their names? 

An award-winning author of The Number Story series, Miss Anna is happy to unveil to you one of her favorites--The Color Story. And as you may have already expected, Miss Anna's book on colors is again far from the typical and the ordinary. She always presents a subject in a different light. A dollop of cozy sweetness and a sprinkling of witty charm are her signature flavor. The Color Story is all-of-the-above and truly one-of-kind. An educational-fiction written in verse and rhyme, the Color Story is sure to delight. And it is actually two stories in one, back-to-back.

In the Color Story 1, children are the teacher. After guessing each colorful riddle, they are ushered in to name the colors in the beautiful exhibits of reds, oranges, yellows, and the like. These are no common and ordinary color exhibits, mind you. In the Color Story 1, red is not simply "red". There are pomegranate red, raspberry red, brick red, ruby red, candy apple red, blood red, and more "red". Since there are creative and imaginative ways to describe the color of red, why be satisfied with just RED? It sparks the imagination to know that colors can be described in childlike ways, hence heightening the keenness in observation and clarity in expression. Isn't it grand that the children themselves can be the 'teacher' teaching the names of colors?

In the Color Story 2, children are invited to explore the world of pigments and dyes. Children are surrounded by colors. Nature is a treasury of colors. Therefore, it is natural for children to love colors and love expressing what they feel and see with colors. This begs a question. How can children MAKE colors? How did people make colors in the olden days? Even the people who dwelt in caves long ago used hand-made colors. How did they make them? What did they use? The Shapes, in their own love of colors, have long studied the ancient arts of how colors have been made. To all children who are curious to know as well, they are more than happy to share story after story of this forgotten art. Blue from a plant, red from a bug, green from a rock, yellow from a flower... These stories touch up...