Mark Bernthal.  Barney and Baby Bop Go to the Library

Barney takes Baby Bop to the library so that she can get her own library card.

Jean Ekman Adams.  Clarence Goes Out West and Meets a Purple

Horse   While visiting a western ranch, Clarence the pig plays cards, line dances, plays the washtub in a cowboy band, and reads stories at bedtime with his new friend Smoky the purple horse.

Margaret Wise Brown.  The Color Kittens

While the color kittens are trying to make green paint, their mixing leads to pink, orange, and purple.

Shelley Rotner. Colors Around Us

From raspberries and red hots to petunias and plums, photographs portray a rainbow of sunny images in this playful flap book.

Liza Baker.  Dinosaur Days

When Harold is unable to sleep, he uses his purple crayon to draw a jungle in which he hopes to find dinosaurs.

L. King Perez.  First Day in Grapes

When Chico starts the third grade after his migrant worker family moves to begin harvesting California grapes, he finds that self confidence and math skills help him cope with the first day of school.

Adjoa J. Burrowes.  Grandma's Purple Flowers

An African American girl finds hope after her favorite grandmother dies.

Bruce McMillan.  Growing Colors

Photographs of green peas, yellow corn, red potatoes, purple beans, and other fruits and vegetables illustrate the many colors of nature.

Elissa Haden Guest.  Iris and Walter:  True Friends

Walter shows Iris how to make friends with his horse Rain, and in turn, Iris helps Walter deal with a problem at school.

Gloria Whelan.  Jam & Jelly by Holly & Nellie

A Nellie and her mother pick berries all summer in order to make enough money so that Nellie can get a coat to wear to school in the winter.

Bruce Degen.  Jamberry

A little boy walking in the forest meets a big lovable bear that takes him on a delicious berry-picking adventure in the magical world of Berryland.

Kevin Henkes. Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.

Harriet Ziefert.  Lunchtime for a Purple Snake

When Jessica visits her artist grandpa they make a painting together.

Reeve Lindbergh.  My Hippie Grandmother

grandmother, including the purple bus she drives, growing vegetables, picketing City Hall, and playing the banjo.

Margaret Wise Brown.  My World of Color

Rhyming verses describe things that are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, gray, white, and pink.

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat.  Nate the Great and the Stolen Base

Nate the Great investigates the mysterious disappearance of the purple plastic octopus that his baseball team uses for second base.

Phil Vischer.  Pa Grapes Shapes

While searching for new tires for his car, Pa Grape encounters a variety of shapes, including a triangle, rectangle, and crescent.

Crockett Johnson.  A Picture for Harold's Room

Stepping into the picture he has drawn with his purple crayon, Harold continues drawing his way through various adventures.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood.  Princess Prunella and the Purple

Peanut   Prunella, a proud, prissy, princess, plans to marry a pinheaded prince who will pamper her--until a wise old woman's spell puts a purple peanut on the princess's pretty nose.

Lisa Westberg Peters.  Purple-Delicious Blackberry Jam

When Freddy and Muff persuade reluctant Grandma to make blackberry jam, they set off on a juicy, sweet, prickly, mashy, messy, bubbly, hot, frothy adventure.

Robert Munsch.  Purple, Green and Yellow

Beny's mom buys her hundreds of colored markers but Beny gets bored with coloring on paper and colors her fingernails and then her entire body with " super-indelible, never-come-off-until-you're-dead colored" markers.

Tracey Campbell Pearson.  The Purple Hat

Annie receives a purple hat in the mail.

Dana Meachen Rau.  Purple is Best

Sue's blue paint and Fred's red paint get mixed together and create purple, the best color of all.

Carolyn Kowalczyk.  Purple is Part of a Rainbow

Introduces vocabulary and the concept of parts of a whole with examples such as a petal on a flower and a whisker on a kitty.

Erica Farber.  Purple Pickle Juice

Thistle Howl desperately wants to grow, but drinking purple pickle juice doesn't help and her aunt's magic makes Thistle think that maybe she's content just as she is.

N. N. Charles.  What Am I?  Looking Through Shapes at Apples

and Grapes   Illustrations with cut-out shapes and rhyming questions introduce fruits, colors, and shapes.

Karen Romano Young.  The Beetle and Me:  a Love Story

Surrounded by her busy extended family and their many cars, fifteen-year-old Daisy pursues her goal of single-handedly restoring the car of her dreams, the old purple Volkswagen Beetle from her childhood.

Jamie Gilson.  Bug in a Rug

Seven-year-old Richard is self-conscious when he receives a pair of purple pants from his aunt and uncle and has to wear them to school, but he is even more worried when his uncle shows up for a visit to his classroom.

Suzy Kline.  Horrible Harry and the Purple People

Horrible Harry, the class clown of Room 2B, returns to the spotlight with the Purple People, mysterious beings that only he can see.

Barbara Park.  Junie B. Jones is a Graduation Girl

Junie B. Jones has just turned six and is looking forward to her kindergarten graduation, but when grape juice stains the white gown she couldn't resist trying on, she is afraid graduation is ruined.

Lucy Frank.  Just Ask Iris

In the summer before seventh grade, twelve-year-old Iris Diaz-Pinkowitz goes up and down the fire escape outside her new New York City apartment, becoming an integral part of the lives of her human and animal neighbors.

Eileen Spinelli.  Lizzie Logan Wears Purple Sunglasses

When her family moves to a new neighborhood, Heather meets ten-year-old Lizzie Logan, whose brash and bossy ways make Heather wonder if they can ever be friends.

Carolyn Keene.  The Mystery of Lilac Inn

Teenage detective Nancy Drew finds herself in danger when she sets out to track a jewel thief.

Bonnie Pryor.  The Plum Tree War

When Robert's irritating cousin Harriet comes to stay for a whole school year, it's war until the quarrelsome fourth grade cousins discover how much alike they really are.

Garth Nix.  The Violet Keystone

Tal and Milla are only one step from death and evil is only one step from triumph. An old war is revived and the key to everything is the Seventh Tower.

Vivian Vande Velde.  Wizard at Work:  a Novel in Stories

A young wizard, who runs a school to teach wizards, looks forward to a quiet summer off but is drawn into adventures with princesses, unicorns, and ghosts instead.

Diane L. Burns.  Berries, Nuts and Seeds

Describes a variety of berries, nuts, and seeds that might be found on a nature walk and includes identification information.

Gail Gibbons.  The Berry Book

Describes different types of berries and how they grow. Includes recipes with berry ingredients.

Ellen B. Senisi.  Berry Smudges and Leaf Prints:  Finding and

Making Colors from Nature   In this unique craft book, children can create art with colored objects found in nature. No need to buy anything at the store, kids can find the supplies they need on a trip to the backyard, park or garden using leaves, plants, fruits, and flowers.

Greg Tang.  The Grapes of Math:  Mind-Stretching Math Riddles

Illustrated riddles introduce strategies for solving a variety of math problems in using visual clues.

Pam Munoz Ryan.  How Do You Raise a Raisin?

Discover how grapes become raisins and how they are used besides snacks.

Andrew Lang.  The Lilac Fairy Book

33 tales from Portugal, Ireland, Wales and points East and West, among them "The Brown Bear of Norway," "The Enchanted Deer," "The Story of a Very Bad Boy," and "The Brownie of the Lake."

David Getz.  Purple Death:  the Mysterious Flu of 1918

An illustrated overview of the onset, progress, and effects of the flu epidemic of 1918, which resulted in the deaths of more than half a million people.

Barbara Younger.  Purple Mountain Majesties:  the Story of

Katharine Lee Bates and America the Beautiful   A brief biography of the author and college professor whose travels across the United States inspired her to write the poem which became the song "America the Beautiful."

Jack Prelutsky.  Ride a Purple Pelican

A collection of short nonsense verses and nursery rhymes.