Monsters Love Colors

MONSTERS LOVE COLORS written and illustrated by Mike Austin Harper Collins 978-0062125941 Ages 3-8 40 pages

For everyone out there who works with the wiggly variety of the human species, here is a fabulous book guaranteed to capture the squirmiest of squirmers and to sneak some book learnin' into their heads while they aren't noticing. We're teaching colors here like nobody else and it turns out colors are really FUN!

Forget ROYGBV and move on up to monsters! "Monsters love to scribble, scribble, mix, dance, and wiggle!" You get my drift. They're a mishin' and a mashin' and a squishin' and a squashin'! And they LUVVVV new colors! So bust out that red...the one that roars and snores and "more!"How about yellow? Anybody want to claim show more yellow? This is no wimpy color either. This is the yellow that will "prowl and howl and growl." Every monster has his or her favorite color and hey, did you know you can mix the colors and make new colors? "And what new favorite color can we make for you?" They are having an all out blast mixing up those colors with a scribble scribble here and a dance dance there. This would make a great read aloud for young artists in the making who can't wait to make everyone's life a little more colorful!

Over the rainbow,

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Read on November 22, 2015

Out of all the books we read and looked at tonight, this is the only one that my one-year-old stopped to actually follow along with. The illustrations are exciting and there are just enough silly sounds to make reading it fun while still teaching the colors.

Happy, friendly-looking monsters have a fabulous time scribbling with crayons and splashing paint in colors of the rainbow. A fun, lively concept book for preschoolers.

Such a fun book to read with your kids if they are interested in learning about colors! The monsters in this book love colors and love to mix colors. Not only that but they love to scribble, mix, dance, and wiggle. Kids will have such a fun time learning about primary colors and how they mix to make other colors. My three-year-old wanted to read this book over and over because it was so vibrant and fun. This book will get your little monsters excited about colors!

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Monsters love colors. Monsters love to mix colors to make new favorites colors. And what better than mixing colors ON your friends? They do a lot of scribble, mix, dance and wiggle when mixing colors! Mess is allowed. Color on the walls is ok. Color inside the lines is not required.

This is a gracious book for learning and playing with primary colors and what happens when they mix. I know there are many good books on this topic, but this is a laughable one!

The illustrations are superb, so simple but so creative. The monsters are so cute and friendly.

You know a book is a success when as soon as you close it, your kid want to start it again right away. And that happened yesterday a few times in a row...

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I did enjoy Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin. This books uses very colorful language and words which makes it very fun to read. For Example, "Monsters live to scribble, scribble, mix, dance, and wiggle!" and "Mix, Mash, and splash!" every page is fun in this way. The book is about colors and mixing colors so each page is covered in different colors. The book goes over red, yellow, blue, orange, green, purple, and rainbow. This book makes learning about the different colors fun and exciting.

I love this book and how it explains colors! The cute little monsters have their own favorite colors and they color each other. It teaches children how to blend colors and make new ones. It is a great book for younger children who are just learning there colors! I love it!