Books like My Blue Is Happy
By Jessica Young
For the kid who insists their favorite color feels a certain way and gets frustrated when no one else sees it that way — this book says that's exactly right. Gentle, reflective, and quietly affirming, with a poetic rhythm to the comparisons.
When a seagull drops a can of orange paint on Mr. Plumbean's house, he repaints it into a wild reflection of his dreams — and his tidy, identical street may never be the same.
A born builder who once made a tower from diapers and glue faces a teacher who despises architecture — until a class picnic goes wrong and his skills turn out to be exactly what's needed.
A young Chinese American girl notices color everywhere in her everyday world, from red dragons and firecrackers to lychees, and brown in her own teddy bear.
A proper young boy named Vasya Kandinsky hears colors sing and sees sounds dance when he opens his paint box — but will he dare to paint music instead of pretty houses and flowers?
A young painter defies a male-dominated art world by pouring paint straight onto canvas and pushing it with mops and squeegees, inventing a whole new way to make pictures.
Across a city, ninety-two men and thirteen women bathe, dress in black-and-white clothes, and gather their instruments before heading to midtown for an 8:30 concert.
A white shape drifts across page after page of blue sky, looking like a rabbit, a bird, an ice-cream cone, and more — until a final reveal answers what it really is.
A poor boy who longs to paint is given a magic paintbrush that brings to life whatever he creates, until a greedy emperor sets out to capture him and claim its power for himself.
A journey through history traces one color across the world — from ground sapphire rocks and rare Eurasian snails to slave-grown indigo and a 1905 chemical breakthrough that made blue jeans possible.
A Victorian artist named Waterhouse Hawkins sets out to show the world what dinosaurs looked like by building the first life-size dinosaur models, first in England, then in New York City.
