As he walks down the street, Pete the cat sings about his brand new white shoes as they change from red to blue to brown to wet

A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden.

Fascinated by the colors, shapes, sounds, and movements of the many different birds she sees through her window, a little girl is happy to discover that she and they have something in common.

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.

Red's factory-applied label clearly says that he is red, but despite the best efforts of his teacher, fellow crayons and art supplies, and family members, he cannot seem to do anything right until a new friend offers a fresh perspective.

Edna the penguin tries to find something in her surroundings that is not black, white, or blue.

Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s, and how his art, banned by the Nazi regime, inspired young Eric Carle.

One day, Duncan is happily coloring with his crayons when a stack of postcards arrives in the mail from his former crayons, each of which has run away or been left behind, and all of which want to come home.

Friends Rachel and Kirsty, vacationing with their parents on Rainspell Island, continue their search for the rainbow fairies who have been banished from Fairyland by Jack Frost, and succeed in finding Amber, the second of the seven magical sisters, who is trapped in a seashell.

In simple rhyming text a young Muslim girl and her family guide the reader through the traditions and colors of Islam.