Books like Red is a Dragon: A Book of Colors
By Roseanne Thong
For the kid who points out every color on every walk, this turns that habit into a book of its own. Bright, rhythmic, and warmly observant.
An imaginative boy dreams up the ultimate house, sketching in a racetrack, a flying playroom, and a gigantic slide as his ideas grow wilder with every rhyme.
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.
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 collection of poems imagines a curious inn run by poet William Blake, where dragons, angels, and a Man in the Moon all check in for the night.
A picture book biography that circles the life of Margaret Wise Brown, the writer behind Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, asking again and again what was truly important about her.
An alphabet journey through iconic fine art, pairing each letter with a famous painting — spotting the earring in Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring, counting fruit in Cezanne's still life, and more.
A boy walks home from school and imagines wilder and wilder sights on Mulberry Street, building a story fantastic enough to tell his father.
A student gets stuck with a science curse after his teacher claims poetry is everywhere in science, and suddenly every rhyme in his head turns into a poem about amoebas, black holes, or the food chain.
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 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 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.
