The Color Kittens

The Color Kittens

First edition
Author	Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator	Alice and Martin Provensen
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Children's literature
Publisher	Little Golden Books
Publication date	1949
Media type	Print
Pages	24
ISBN	0-307-10234-3
OCLC	42383466
Dewey Decimal	[E] 21
LC Class	PZ7.B8163 Cm 2000

The Color Kittens is a children's book by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, and published, as part of the Little Golden Books series, in 1949.

Plot[]

The story revolves around two kittens, "Hush" and "Brush," who attempt to create green paint through mixing their other paints. Their attempts lead to a variety of different hues—none of them green. The book's famous catch phrase is "Blue is blue, and red is red! They still need green!"

Publication history[]

• The Color Kittens, 1949, USA, Simon and Schuster OCLC 1392362
• The Colour Kittens, 1973, Australia, Golden Press OCLC 607091308
• The Color Kittens, (Kathi Ember, illustrator) 1994, USA, Western Publishing ISBN 9780307302175
• The Color Kittens, 2003, USA, Random House ISBN 9780307021410

Reception[]

Children's book author and illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky, for whom the book was a childhood favorite and inspiration, said that, "In a way, the book was written to teach facts about color, but its real subject is the huge pleasure to be found in the seeing and feeling of color [...]".^[1] Suzanne Rahn notes that Hush and Brush's active creativity and exploration have some parallels among Brown's other cat characters, such as the drastically less-humanized Pussycat, who are much more passive in their representation of the creative state Brown called “Cat Life”.^[2]

References[]

External links[]

• http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htmy/0307102343.html

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