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.

Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, but refuses to acknowledge the racism that continues to constrict her families happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they...

Children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and a teacher looking at them. Includes note to parents and teachers, and related activities.

During the course of a walk, a young boy identifies animals of different colors.

Using no special effects other than the reader's imagination, a series of dots multiplies, grows, or changes color by pressing, tilting, or blowing on the previous page. Instructs the reader on how to interact with the illustrations to create imaginative images.

Traces the physical history of specific colors, discussing the materials used to produce them and touching on their symbolic meanings.

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.

This rhyming story describes each day in terms of a particular color which in turn is associated with specific emotions.

The painter Joseph Albers saw art in simple things. Late in his career, he began painting squares of solid, unmixed color, one within another to study the colors and their interactions.

"A Tanzanian albino boy finds himself the ultimate outsider, hunted because of the color of his skin"--