Read The Rainbow Part One - Sweetbean- Easy

Dive into a colorful adventure with Read the Rainbow: Part One! As part of the Sweetbean Challenge, enjoy stories featuring vibrant reds, oranges, yellows, and greens, celebrating the beauty and meaning of the first half of the rainbow. Don’t worry—books with the rest of the rainbow colors are your challenge in July!

Updated December 19, 2024
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Clifford the big red dog.
Bridwell, Norman
Paper Book
It only takes a little to be BIG! Meet Clifford and Emily Elizabeth in the original Clifford book! Clifford is big. Clifford is red. But most of all, Clifford knows how to BE A GOOD FRIEND.
Red
Alexander, Jed
Paper Book
Red is on her way through the woods to visit Grandmother when she meets the Big Bad Wolf. What are that Wolf and all of those woodland creatures up to? This version of the classic folktale ends a bit differently. A delightful surprise awaits Red and readers in this wordless picture book featuring...
Little Red.
Woollvin, Bethan
Paper Book
A striking new interpretation of the beloved Little Red Riding Hood story - with a dark and witty twist.Little Red Riding Hood meets a wolf on her way through the woods to visit her sick grandmother. The wolf is hungry, and Red Riding Hood looks tasty, so he hatches a dastardly plan, gobbles up...
Red hat.
Judge, Lita.
Paper Book
Red wagon
Liwska, Renata.
Paper Book
All Lucy wants to do is play with her brand-new, bright red wagon! But her mother has other plans for her-and the wagon. Lucy must go to the market and buy vegetables for dinner. Before long, though, and ordinary trip becomes a high-seas adventure, a ride through outer space, and a day at...
The red book
Lehman, Barbara.
Paper Book
This Caldecott Honor-winning book about a book is a delightful, wordless tale about the power of stories, perfect for fans of Brendan Wenzel and David Weisner. A red book is lying in the snow in the city. When you open it, you find a new kind of adventure. You will be...
It's an orange aardvark!
Hall, Michael
Paper Book
Acclaimed New York Times-bestselling picture book creator Michael Hall delivers a funny and suspenseful story about colors, ants, aardvarks, and rainbows that will appeal to Lois Ehlert fans and fans of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle. Another winner from the author of My Heart Is Like...
Little Owl's orange scarf.
Feeney, Tatyana
Paper Book
Little Owl loves doing sums, eating ice-cream, and riding his scooter. These are some of his favourite things. He has his favourite colours, too. And orange isn't one of them. So when Mummy knits a scarf as a surprise Little Owl knows that he definitely doesn't like it. It's itchy, long, and far too...
Yellow time
Stringer, Lauren
Paper Book
Lauren Stringer celebrates the coming of autumn in this exuberant, joyful ode to that magical time when the leaves are changing color and the animals are preparing for winter. Children and animals alike excitedly anticipate yellow time, when the trees release their colorful...
The yellow suitcase
Sriram, Meera
Paper Book
Asha travels with her parents from America to India to mourn her grandmother's passing. When they arrive at her grandmother's house, it's filled with strangers--and no Grandma. Asha's grief and anger are compounded by the empty yellow suitcase usually reserved for gifts to and from...
Linus the little yellow pencil
Magoon, Scott
Paper Book
A kid-friendly tale of two ends of the same pencil learning to get along! Linus and his eraser, Ernie, don't always see eye to eye. But with the family art show drawing near, these two will have to sharpen their collaboration to make something neither one could...
Green
Seeger, Laura Vaccaro.
Paper Book
Die cut pages bring surprise after surprise in this magical new book from the "Queen of the concept book"--an intricate and satisfying homage to green, the color of all creation. How many kinds of green are there? There's the lush green of a forest on a late spring day, the fresh,...
Green pants
Kraegel, Kenneth
Paper Book
For kids who march to their own drummer -- or are especially attached to a comfort object -- here is a completely adorable character who wears his singularity in style. Jameson only ever wears green pants. When he wears green pants, he can do anything. But if he wants to...
Grandpa Green
Smith, Lane.
Paper Book
A Caldecott Honor Book From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a Caldecott Honor-winning timeless story of family history, legacy, and love. Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a...
Lizette's green sock
Valckx, Catharina.
Paper Book
One day Lizette finds a pretty green sock. She’s delighted, until some neighborhood bullies begin to tease her. Socks come in pairs, they say. What good is one sock by itself? Lizette searches and searches, but she cannot find the sock’s missing mate. Fortunately, her friend Bert...
Penguins love colors
Aspinall, Sarah
Paper Book
Mama loves brightly colored flowers and her little penguins too! Tulip, Tiger Lily, Dandelion, Bluebell, Violet, and Broccoli use red, orange, yellow, blue, purple, and green to color in their snowy world and paint a colorful surprise for Mama. Will she know who painted what? Of course she...
Ten in a hurry
Cole, Lo
Paper Book
From the author/illustrator of Ten on a Twig comes an interactive picture book for toddlers that counts down a school of fish, color by color, perfect for fans of Eric Carle books. Ten in a hurry, swimming in a line... Watch out, Red! GULP. Now there are nine. Watch the fish get...
The color monster.
Llenas, Anna, 1977-
Paper Book
"This sensitive book . . . encourages young ones to open up and discuss how they feel, even when their thoughts are confusing." --Parents We teach toddlers to identify colors, numbers, shapes, and letters--but what about their feelings? By...
Every color soup
Hurley, Jorey
Paper Book
Purple, yellow, orange, and red. Just the right mix of colored vegetables make a delicious soup in this tasty introduction to colors, counting, and veggies. All you need is a pot, a spoon, an adult helper, and vegetables of many colors to make a very special soup--Every Color...
Summer color!
Murray, Diana
Paper Book

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