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The Color Kittens
Once there were two color kittens with green eyes, Brush and Hush . . .So goes the rollicking tale of two pouncy kittens who make all the colors in the world. First published more than 50 years ago, this much-requested title is now available as a Little Golden Book Classic, with its original cover!
Hardcover, 24 pages
Published
May 13th 2003
by Golden Books
(first published 1949)
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Sep 22, 2007
Stephanie
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My grandmother used to read me this book between puffs of her cigarette. How I loved this story...it's the tale of two kittens, Hush and Brush. They have buckets and buckets and buckets of paint, but none that are the color green. Refusing to have their spirits crushed by the evil paint manufacturing company, the two decide to make their own green by mixing various colors together. A series of delightful accidents ensue.
Written by Margaret Wise Brown, the poet laureate of children's literature,...more
Written by Margaret Wise Brown, the poet laureate of children's literature,...more
I think The Color Kittens is probably my favorite out of all of Margaret Wise Brown's books. Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, the artwork is playful and imaginative, supporting the text and bringing it to life. This book has the sweet story and delicate, musical way of rhyming that is so typical with Brown's books...but it doesn't always rhyme. I don't know about you, but when I'm reading aloud a children's book that has the exact same rhyme-rhythm pattern over and over and over, I sta...more
Oct 06, 2007
Annette
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
People with young children, or people who like to do acid
I like this book. Everything is out of proportion and weird. I don't want to give away the ending, but it's pretty cool when the kittens mix all the colors together. I was really hoping for a rainbow...but it was something else.
My favorite page is the one where people live on islands and have houses only big enough to shelter their loaves of bread.
My favorite page is the one where people live on islands and have houses only big enough to shelter their loaves of bread.
The Color Kittens tells the story of two kittens, Hush and Brush, which have buckets of paint and try to mix different ones in order to make their favorite color, green. The kittens end up making all sorts of other colors before they finally find that yellow paint and blue paint makes green paint. This is a concept book that teaches the child reader about colors, more specifically that two separate colors can make a new color. When the kittens discover a new color, Brown incorporates rhyming in...more
LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this book when I was little. I liked seeing the colors blend together.
This is a Little Golden Book that I remember from my childhood. My mom says I used to request it a lot. It's all about mixing colors. I remember the text better than the illustrations, although I just paged through the book and I don't know why I don't remember these illustrations, as they are very distinctive and kind of trippy. I haven't read it to my son yet to see what he thinks, but I can still remember the last line: "There were all the colors in the world and the color kittens had made th...more
This was one of the books that I used at a cat and kitten storytime the week before last.
Hands down, it was the *most* popular book!
I mean, this is along side of Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (Caldecott winner) and a new book Fuddles about a very fat and spoiled cat.
Curious, I tried two other Margaret Wise Brown books (author of Goodnight Moon and others) and lo and behold! I found the same result.
I found a book about a girl and a bear that live in the same house! There was not one...more
Hands down, it was the *most* popular book!
I mean, this is along side of Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (Caldecott winner) and a new book Fuddles about a very fat and spoiled cat.
Curious, I tried two other Margaret Wise Brown books (author of Goodnight Moon and others) and lo and behold! I found the same result.
I found a book about a girl and a bear that live in the same house! There was not one...more
Adorable book, although I'm not sure I am posting in the right edition, it has the right cover page but it isn't hard cover and mine comes with a 33 1/3 RPM Record which I haven't gotten to listen to sense record players are hard to come by but the introduction beginning with "You will know it is time to turn the page when you hear the Kittens meow like this..." makes me squeak with love of cuteness.
I liked it. I would read this book to my 2nd grade students. It helps students to understand that mixing colors makes another color. Two kittens are searching for the color green and throughout their search they discover how to make different colors and eventually make the color green.
This is a wonderful, classic book about kittens and color and surrealism. Two paint-loving kittens learn about the color wheel and then dream of fantastical things. I'm glad these books are still being published and not lost to the sands of time.
I love this book for young children who are starting to find their artistic side. The book has two kittens brush and hush who loves to paint but who did not ave all the colors to paint, so they started mixing colors to discover new ones. This book is an excellent way to introduce the color wheel to children.
I love this book. Love love love. The story is wonderful and the illustrations are charming. An acquaintance had it -- I read it, came home, and promptly ordered three copies: for my niece, for my nephew, and for me.
I loved this story as a child. It made me want to color the world and I learned as much as a child's book could tell me about color. I think it should be a part of every child's collection.
Presumably this is intended to teach little kids about primary colors and how to mix pigments.
I found the kittens blitzed expressions and manic behavior less cute than I think I was supposed to.
I found the kittens blitzed expressions and manic behavior less cute than I think I was supposed to.
Fun book to read, and a great way to introduce the idea that mixing two colors makes another color. And that makes it a fabulous intro for a fun (and appropriately messy) toddler art project!
Look at the kittens! They know their colours and will teach you how to have great taste!
I adore the illustrations by the Provensens. I am happy Little Golden Books are reissuing the classics.
I adore the illustrations by the Provensens. I am happy Little Golden Books are reissuing the classics.
I just loved this book as a child... and in all that brown, the sun went down. I loved the pictures, the colors, the words. Later, I read it to my own children and I still loved it!
I loved the Little Golden Book series growing up and was excited to see that they have found a resurgence in popularity. Great books for kids to grow up with!
2匹の猫が、赤と黄色と青と白でいろいろな色を作るお話。
難易度は、BiscuitとFat cat（ICR1）の間ぐらい。
難易度は、BiscuitとFat cat（ICR1）の間ぐらい。
This was my favorite book as a child, and I don't even like cats. Beautiful illustrations. Teaches colors and mixing colors, but in a fun way.
This book was great for teaching colors. I would definitely use it in a younger classroom during a color unit. Also had cute rhymes.
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This was a cute story. There were a couple of times where I had to reread to make sense of what the words were saying.
This was a cute story. There were a couple of times where I had to reread to make sense of what the words were saying.
Still as imaginary as when I read it as a kid, all those colors. The three kittens try to make green with all their paint
A childhood favorite. This book was chosen for Aunt Pho and Uncle Dave's Baby Book of the Month Club by David for Redd Ritzuko.
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A cute little book to introduce colour names and colour mixing to youngsters in a fun way without obvious learning.
i loved this book as a kid and would always check it out at the library! still brings back great memories.
This is one of the first books I remember reading as a child. It was my favorite for some reason!
This childhood book is truly delightful. My favorite from when I was a kid.
Cute little book. Chloe didn't pay a lot of attention to it the first time.
I adored this book as a little girl! It was one of my favorites!
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Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. Even though she died nearly 60 years ago, her books still sell very well.
Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem....more
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Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem....more
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