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Jessica Wollman.  Andrew's Bright Blue T-Shirt

Andrew's big brother gives him a shirt that Andrew wears every day, until he realizes that he has outgrown it.

Peter Holwitz.  Big Blue Spot

A spot realizes that it is lonely and asks the reader of the book to help it find a friend.

Eve Bunting.  The Blue and the Gray

As a black boy and his white friend watch the construction of a house which will make them neighbors on the site of a Civil War battlefield, they agree that their homes are monuments to that war.

David McPhail.  The Blue Door:  a Fox and Rabbit Story

A silly story of mistaken identity.

Helen Stephens.  Blue Horse

Shy Tilly is new in town with a toy horse as her only friend, but her adventures with him help her to find the courage to ask another solitary girl to play.

Christopher Wormell.  Blue Rabbit and Friends

In his search for just the right home, Blue Rabbit helps a bear, a goose, and a dog find the perfect place to live.

Linda Boyden.  The Blue Roses

A Native American girl gardens with her grandfather, who helps to raise her, and learns about life and loss when he dies, and then speaks to her from a dream where he is surrounded by blue roses.

Mario Matthew Cuomo.  The Blue Spruce

When a storm knocks down the blue spruce tree in a boy's yard, he and his father work with all their might to right the tree again.

Gabrielle Woolfitt.  Blue

Examines a variety of things associated with the color blue--electric sparks, feelings, flowers, clothing, gems, and more.

Mary Calhoun.  Blue-Ribbon Henry

Although he feels insignificant next to the other animals at the county fair, Henry the cat proves to be special in his own way.

Deborah Reber.  Blue's ABC Detective Game

Blue and her friends play the ABC detective game! Young readers can look for the object that starts with each letter of the alphabet, then lift flaps to check the answer.

Kelly Asbury.  Bonnie's Blue House

Bonnie Blue describes a day's activities at home--swimming, playing in the shade, getting clean, eating dessert, reading a story, and going to sleep. Illustrations feature the color blue.

Cyndy Szekeres.  Cyndy Szekeres' The Deep Blue Sky Twinkles

with Stars   After a busy day, Mama and Papa Bunny prepare their little ones for bed with hot cocoa, baths, hugs, and plenty of love.

Tana Hoban.  Is It Red?  Is It Yellow?  Is It Blue?

Illustrations and brief text introduce colors and the concepts of shape and size.

Leo Lionni.  Little Blue and Little Yellow

A little blue spot and a little yellow spot are best friends, and when they hug each other they become green.

Roslyn Schwartz.   The Mole Sisters and the Blue Egg

The Mole Sisters are looking for something special and when they spy two halves of a blue egg they know they have found the right objects for their swings.

Fran Swift.  Old Blue Buggy

It's hard to let go of favorites. Henry and his mom find this particularly true of their favorite old blue buggy which has taken them uptown and down. But as Henry gets older, his trike and walking take its place. What will become of the old blue buggy?

Dr. Seuss.  One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

A story-poem about the activities of such unusual animals as the Nook, Wump, Yink, Yop, Gack, and the Zeds.

Megan McDonald.  Penguin and Little Blue

Penguin and his pint-sized partner Little Blue escape their promotional tour for Water World and return to Antarctica to huddle with their penguin buddies.

Dinah Johnson.  Quinnie Blue

Hattie wonders about the activities of her grandmother Quinnie Blue when she was little.

Marcus Pfister.  Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale

When a big blue whale comes to live near their reef, there is a misunderstanding between him and Rainbow Fish and his friends that leaves everyone very unhappy and hungry.

Jean Van Leeuwen.  The Strange Adventures of Blue Dog

Billy's love for his toy Blue Dog, who lives on a toy farm, transforms both their lives, making Blue Dog's world seem real and inspiring Billy to get a real dog.

Christopher Awdry & Ken Stott.  Thomas the Tank Engine's Big

Blue Treasury   Three complete stories featuring trains as our friends and helpers.

Anne Rockwell.  Two Blue Jays

Miss Dana's class observes two blue jays as they make their nest, have babies, and teach them to fly. Includes information on the physical characteristics and behavior of blue jays.

Sally Fitz-Gibbon.  Two Shoes, Blue Shoes, New Shoes!

A brand new pair of shoes can hop and skip to school better than anything. And nobody is as proud of her shiny footwear as this little girl, who bounces and dances her way through an imaginative adventure that only her two, new, blue shoes can discover.

Emma Chichester Clark.  What Shall We Do, Blue Kangeroo?

Lily finds things to do with blue kangaroo when everyone else is busy.

Grace Tseng.  White Tiger Blue Serpent

When his mother's beautiful brocade is snatched away by a greedy goddess, a young Chinese boy faces many perils as attemps to get it back.

Sally Grindley.  Why is the Sky Blue?

Although he wants to learn all that wise old Donkey knows, Rabbit cannot sit still to listen to the answers to his questions, but in the end he teaches Donkey some new things.

Paula Danziger.  Amber Brown is Feeling Blue

Nine-year-old Amber Brown faces further complications because of her parents' divorce when her father plans to move back from Paris and she must decide which parent she will be with on Thanksgiving.

Kathy Hoopmann.  Blue Bottle Mystery:  an Asperger Adventure

Ben finds an unusual old bottle buried in the school yard, and in a roundabout way it helps Ben and his family find out what is causing some of the persistent problems he has both at home and at school.

Ruth Wallace-Brodeur.  Blue Eyes Better

When her older brother is killed in an accident, ten-year-old Tessa and her parents find it difficult to overcome their grief and return to living normally.

Avi.  Blue Heron

While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue heron, even as the family around her unravels.

Cynthia Rylant.  Blue Hill Meadows

Tells the story of the Meadow family and the life they lead in the quiet country town of Blue Hill, Virginia.

Robin McKinley.  The Blue Sword

Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.

Doris Gates.  Blue Willow

A little girl, who wants most of all to have a real home and to go to a regular school, hopes that the valley her family has come to, which so resembles the pattern on her treasured blue willow plate, will be their permanent home.

Catherine F. Creedon.  Blue Wolf

Following the death of his mother, fourteen-year-old Jamie is sent to live with his mysterious aunt in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where he discovers some long-hidden family secrets.

Cynthia Rylant.  Blue-Eyed Daisy

Relates episodes in the life of eleven-year-old Ellie and her family who live in a coal mining town in West Virginia.

Virginia Hamilton.  Bluish

Ten-year-old Dreenie feels both intrigued and frightened when she thinks about the girl nicknamed Bluish, whose leukemia is making her pale and causing her to use a wheelchair.

John Bellairs.  The Curse of the Blue Figurine

Johnny Dixon is plunged into a terrifying mystery-adventure when he removes a blue figurine called a ushabt from church.

Patricia Harrison Easton.  Davey's Blue-Eyed Frog

Davey finds a talking frog that claims to be a princess and plans to take her to school to show off, until he begins to consider the consequences of his actions.

Lois Lowry.  Gathering Blue

Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

Ann Rinaldi.  Girl in Blue

To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.

Alex Shearer.  The Great Blue Yonder

Harry, a boy who has died, tries to describe what it is like on the "other side," a place known as the Other Lands.

C. S. Adler.  Her Blue Straw Hat

Having grown to accept and love her stepfather Ben, twelve-year-old Rachel is dismayed when his spoiled daughter joins the family in their beach vacation.

Scott O'Dell.  Island of the Blue Dolphins

Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.

Kathleen Duey.  Janey G. Blue:  Pearl Harbor, 1941

In Hawaii in 1941, sixth grader Janey G. Blue experiences the terror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Diane Stevens.  Liza's Blue Moon

Liza, a sensitive thirteen-year-old who wants to be a writer, thinks about her relationship with her best friend, her jealousy of her sister, her feelings about herself, her worries about her parents' marriage, and her interest in a boy at school.

Pauline Fisk.  Midnight Blue

Bonnie's newfound happiness in a world beyond the sky is threatened by the cruel Grandbag, and although she is offered help by the ancient, elusive lord and lady of the hill, she alone must meet the challenge in the end.

Byrd Baylor.   One Small Blue Bead

A boy makes it possible for an old man in their primitive tribe to go in search of other men in far-off places.

Valerie Tripp.  Samantha's Blue Bicycle

In 1904, when ten-year-old Samantha has trouble riding her new bicycle, her grandmother offers a surprising solution. Includes notes on the history of bicycles and bicycling.

Walter Dean Myers.  Smiffy Blue:  Ace Crime Detective

Famous crime fighter Smiffy Blue blunders his way to solving the mystery of a missing formula and three other cases.

Cynthia Voigt.  A Solitary Blue

Jeff's mother, who deserted the family years before, reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his father, a gap that only truth, love, and friendship can heal.

Johanna Hurwitz.  Yellow Blue Jay

Happy to spend his summer vacation at home in the city, eight-year-old Jay is horrified by his parents' plan to spend two weeks in the Vermont woods sharing a house with another family.

Jakki Wood.  Across the Big Blue Sea:  an Ocean Wildlife Book

An introduction to the mysterious wildlife of the oceans, including clownfish, anchovies, whales, and other ocean creatures.

Jack Prelutsky.  Beneath a Blue Umbrella

A collection of short humorous poems in which a hungry hippo raids a melon stand, a butterfly tickles a girl's nose, and children frolic in a Mardi Gras parade.

Deborah Kovacs.  Beneath Blue Waters

Hypothetical scientific tours of the ocean depths present information on the mysterious creatures that live there.

Bill Nye.  Bill Nye the Science Guy's:  Big Blue Ocean

Describes the ocean and its life forms and suggests related activities to help understand marine biology.

James Haskins.  Black, Blue & Gray:  African Americans in the Civil

War   An historical account of the role of African-American soldiers in the Civil War.

Michael Hainey.  Blue

"Featuring blueprints , the blue sky, ... blue screens, blue jeans, and much more!"

Bijou Le Tord.  Blue Butterfly:  a Story about Claude Monet

A picture book biography of the Impressionist painter, Claude Monet.

Rosalind Creasy.  Blue Potatoes, Orange Tomatoes

Describes how to plant and grow a variety of colorful vegetables, including red corn, yellow watermelons, and multicolored radishes.

Patricia Miller-Schroeder.  Blue Whales

Examines the life, environment, habits, and endangered status of the blue whale.

Sally Hobart Alexander.  Do You Remember the Color Blue?

Children ask questions of an author who lost her vision at the age of twenty-seven, including "How did you become blind?" "How can you read?" and "Was it hard to be a parent when you couldn't see your kids?"

Magdalena Holzhey.  Frida Kahlo the Artist in the Blue House

A fascinating look into the world of Mexico's most famous female artist, Frida Kahlo.

Arthur John L'Hommedieu.  From Plant to Blue Jeans:  A Photo

Essay   Describes the process of making blue jeans from the harvesting of cotton through the weaving of cloth and sewing the finished product.

Nikki Grimes.  My Man Blue

A collection of poems describes a young boy's life with his working mother as he establishes his own identity and develops a close relationship with his mother's friend, Blue.

Deborah Lee Rose.  One Nighttime Sea:  an Ocean Counting

Rhyme   A counting book featuring nocturnal sea creatures, from one blue whale calf to ten turtle hatchlings, and back down to one seal pup. Includes facts about each of the twenty featured animals.

Robert D. San Souci.  Peter and the Blue Witch Baby

When the Tsar goes courting the Little Sister of the Sun, a jealous witch threatens to destroy him and his kingdom.

Gary Paulsen.  Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers:  Reflections on

Being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs   Minnesota author and dog musher Gary Paulsen reflects on the growth of his sled dogs as he and his animals discover the world around them.

Wallace Tripp.  Rose's are Red, Violet's are Blue:  and Other Silly

Poems   A collection of silly and amusing poems by American and English writers.

Paul B. Janeczko.  Seeing the Blue Between:  Advice and

Inspiration for Young Poets   This book is a compilation of letters and poems from 32 internationally renowned poets who provide words of wisdom and inspiring examples of their own work.

Deborah Hodge.  Whales:  Killer Whales, Blue Whales & More

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitats of a variety of whales.