AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: The Klamath County, YMCA Family/ Rita Pocock
PUBLISHER: Scholastic PUBLICATION DATE: June 1, 1993
GENRE: Traditional READING LEVEL: Pre-k-1st grade
BRIEF OVERVIEW: In this story many individuals only talk to, eat, and have
pets that are the same color as they are. When these people of many colors need
more food and toys all of the different colored people begin to fight the
people who are not the same color as them. However, this situation changes when
someone tells them to STOP!! When the colored people turn to look at this
person, they cannot tell what color he is. He then shows them how alike they
all are on the inside and the colored people all become friends and share.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will list a few colors that were not
mentioned in the book. Then they will be asked what food and pets people that
are those colors would have liked before the war, and what food and pets they
would have liked after the war. Students will answer in choral response.
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Mary Anna Dozier, Valdosta State University
