Show Your Colors

In a rhyming board book for the very young, each animal has a color to show off—but watch out for the surprise pop-up at the end!

From a duck with soft brown feathers to a donkey with strong white teeth, from a macaw with purple feathers to a fish with yellow fins, each animal on these cheery pages is happy to point out its special color. But what happens when Spider Jack pops up at the end to show off his long black legs? The rhythmic, singsong text combined with crisp, simple illustrations will have toddlers giggling along as they learn their colors.

Smriti Prasadam-Halls is an award-winning, internationally best-selling children’s author whose books include Rain Before Rainbows, illustrated by David Litchfield; Not That Pet!, illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw; and Welcome to Your World, illustrated by Jaime Kim. Her books have been published in more than thirty languages. Previously, Smriti Prasadam-Halls worked at the BBC and in children’s publishing and television as a writer and editor. She lives in London with her husband and their three sons.

Edward Underwood and his wife, Lisa Jones, began designing and hand-printing their own line of cards in their London studio. These days they illustrate and adorn greeting cards and home wares from an old post mill on the edge of the South Downs in England. Edward Underwood is the illustrator of 100 First Words and the Baby’s First Cloth Book series. He lives in South Downs, England.