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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1949 children's book by Margaret Wise Brown}}<br />
{{Infobox book<br />
| name = The Color Kittens<br />
| image = Color Kittens.jpg<br />
| caption = First edition<br />
| author = [[Margaret Wise Brown]]<br />
| illustrator = [[Alice and Martin Provensen]]<br />
| cover_artist = <br />
| country = United States<br />
| language = English<br />
| series = <br />
| genre = [[Children's literature]]<br />
| publisher = [[Little Golden Books]]<br />
| pub_date = 1949<br />
| media_type = Print<br />
| pages = 24<br />
| isbn = 0-307-10234-3<br />
| dewey= [E] 21<br />
| congress= PZ7.B8163 Cm 2000<br />
| oclc= 42383466<br />
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| followed_by = <br />
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'''''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.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
The story revolves around two kittens, "Hush" and "Brush," who attempt to create their favorite color green by mixing the primary colors red, yellow and blue, and black and white. Their attempts lead to pink, orange and purple before "almost by accident," they mix yellow and blue to successfully create green. Now they have the colors to paint everything they see around them. Later when they fall asleep, they dream about things in various colors.<br />
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==Publication history==<br />
*''The Color Kittens'', 1949, USA, [[Simon and Schuster]] {{OCLC|1392362}}<br />
*''The Colour Kittens'', 1973, Australia, [[Western Publishing|Golden Press]] {{OCLC|607091308}}<br />
*''The Color Kittens'', (Kathi Ember, illustrator) 1994, USA, [[Western Publishing]] {{ISBN|9780307302175}}<br />
*''The Color Kittens'', 2003, USA, [[Random House]] {{ISBN|9780307021410}}<br />
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==Reception==<br />
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 [...]".<ref name=RIF1>{{cite book |title=The Art of Reading |last=Zelinsky |first=Paul O. |others=Compiled by Reading is Fundamental |year=2005 |publisher=Dutton Books |isbn=0-525-47484-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/artofreadingfort00read/page/62 62] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/artofreadingfort00read/page/62 }}</ref> 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”.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature/v022/22.rahn.html |title=Cat-Quest: A Symbolic Animal in Margaret Wise Brown |accessdate=2009-08-09 |last=Rahn |first=Suzanne |journal=Children's Literature |year=1994 |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=149–161 |via=Project MUSE |doi=10.1353/chl.0.0412 |s2cid=144139377 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htmy/0307102343.html<br />
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