Little Green Peas by Keith Baker
This delightful, energetic concept book showcases nine colors. Each color features two full-page spreads. Brightly hued, digitally rendered illustrations present the name of each color in large block letters, with every letter a varying texture and shade of the featured tint. The exuberance continues on the following pages, as the peas take part in the sports and entertainment specific to a particular season, which serves as a backdrop.
 
For instance, the introductory color has a summertime theme. The pages offer plenty of white space and are fun to scrutinize, as there are peas piloting boats, riding on an ocean liner, sunbathing, scuba diving, looking for treasure, and building a sandcastle, among numerous other warm-weather activities. Simple rhymes scan well, and listeners will soon be enthusiastically joining in the refrain. Little Green Peas also serves as seek-and-find entertainment since there is a ladybug and a paper airplane to be found on every page. Learning about colors has seldom been this much fun!
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You can find Little Green Peas in the Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten Read-Aloud Set. These are great books that have survived the test of time—books we choose for beauty in prose and content.