Friendship--A Perfect Blendship: Mixed: A Colorful Story by Arree Chung

IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WERE THREE COLORS: YELLOWS, REDS, AND BLUES.

Everybody had his or her own little town: REDS dwelled in Redville, BLUES lived in Bluetown, and YELLOWS hunkered down in Yellow Heights. Everyone had their own place, and all was harmony among them.

Okay, YELLOWs are the brightest, and BLUES are the coolest, but the guy with the megaphone, Big RED, just had to say it!

"REDS ARE THE BEST!"

But the BLUES keep their cool, and the YELLOWs  keep their glow, and gradually everyone chills out enough to mingle in the middle of their city. In fact, some of them got pretty close.

One Blue was drawn to a Yellow's warmth, and she fell for the Blue's calming effect.  They became inseparable and together they come up with a cute little baby, GREEN--bright and calming at the same time. But Big RED  has to voice his opinion loudly.

"COLORS SHOULDN'T MIX!"

But little Green is just too cute to resist. And even some REDs begin to appreciate new possibilities. A Red and a Yellow get together and and get a standout little ORANGE! And before they know it, there's a pretty little PURPLE on the playground.

And soon the neighborhood is a very colorful place, in Arree Chung's newest, Mixed: A Colorful Story. With little Jade, Lavender, and Amber brightening up the whole cityscape. Chung's little lesson on secondary and tertiary colors is also a parable of how "it takes all kinds to make a world." Chung's theme goes down as easy as opening a box of new crayons in a lesson on the infinite possibilities there. Says Kirkus Reviews in their starred review, "A colorful story about celebrating difference as complementary and transformative."

Mix this one with Morag Hood's clever treatise on veggie diversity, Carrot and Pea: An Unlikely Friendship (Read review here.)