The Color Kittens

A strong, fun start with cute kittens mixing secondary colors from their many paint cans of primary colors gives way to a useless dream sequence and a weak conclusion. My daughter wasn't much impressed with it either when she was three. Not a lot of re-reads for this book.

This is a fairly cute story about two kittens who make all the colors in the world. They have an extremely trippy, drug addled dream that includes Easter Eggs on legs. My son won't let me read the brown page for some reason, I think the goat freaks him out.

Ember's illustrations are weird. Generally creepy, but the green jazzy cat dancing with the pink French poodle is brill, and the Easter eggs dancing around the tree is a crazy dream.

Parts of the story are wonderful, but parts are odd. Why do the kittens dream the same dreams? The versed parts of the text are MWB at her best.

I know I've seen the Provensen art at one time, but it wasn't all that memorable to me. From a 'fine art' pov, I believe this the superior. The other is probably more kid-friendly, though.

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but it's still a surreal creation myth with wonderful poetry. I love it and wish I'd known it when I was a kid, or when my sons were little.

"Purple as violets
Purple as plums
Purple as shadows
On late afternoons.""

This is one of the earliest books I remember having read to me. It tells the story of two color-loving kittens who mix various colors to make new colors. I don't know why I found it so fascinating. I enjoyed the colorful fantasy worlds the kittens created with their new colors.

This is most certainly a fantasy seeing as kittens to not mix paint and play with colors. But as usual it provides a wonderful parallel to the curiosity of children. This book seems to have extraordinary theme. The way that Margaret manages to incorporate such a tool for learning and incorporate it so well in her book is simply remarkable. She sticks to her plan and the theme plays out beautifully and is well kept throughout the story.

The kittens have buckets of paint, which they are mixing on their quest to find green, and make “all the colors in the world.” I bought this because I remembered it very fondly from my own childhood. It’s a very endearing story, with lots of details and little poems.

"Sing Ho for the color of Brush
Sing Ho for the color of Hush
Sing Ho for the color of Brush and Hush
Sing Ho for the color of color
Now hush!"

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