Red loves being red! Apples, wagons, fire trucks — he thinks all the best things are red! Yellow admires Red’s roses, but Red just wants to be left to mind his own business — why can’t Yellow mind hers?

But when Yellow and Blue go off to make frogs, shamrocks, and caterpillars, Red realizes that he may be missing out. The possibilities are endless when the colors work together!

Includes a Note to Parents and Caregivers with more information on encouraging empathy and cooperation.

Lysa Mullady is the author of Bye Bye, Pesky Fly and Three Little Birds. She is an elementary school counselor who is known for her engaging, enthusiastic, and creative counseling style. Lysa’s passion is to teach her students to be problem solvers by talking it out and thinking good things. She lives on Long Island, New York. Visit lysamullady.com.

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Laurent Simon is an author and illustrator from France. He is also the illustrator of Line and Dot. Visit laurent-simon.ultra-book.com.

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Red loves being red! Apples, wagons, fire trucks—all the best things are red! Why can’t the other colors just mind their own business?

Includes a Note to Parents and Caregivers with more information on encouraging empathy and cooperation.

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By Lysa Mullady Illustrated by

Laurent Simon

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Red loves being red.Apples. Wagons. Fire trucks.

Copyright © 2019 by Lysa Mullady. Illustrations copyright © 2019 by Laurent Simon. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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Names: Mullady, Lysa, author. | Simon, Laurent, 1979- illustrator.Title: Red Yellow Blue / by Lysa Mullady ; illustrated by Laurent Simon.Description: Washington, DC : Magination Press, [2019] | “American Psychological Association.” | Summary: Red is so focused on his own business that he is grouchy when Yellow pays him a compliment, but he soon sees the importance of working together and being respectful.Identifiers: LCCN 2018033328| ISBN 9781433830303 (hardcover) | ISBN 1433830302 (hardcover)Subjects: | CYAC: Respect—Fiction. | Cooperativeness— Fiction. | Behavior—Fiction. | Color—Fiction.Classification: LCC PZ7.1.M8214 Red 2019 | DDC [E]— dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018033328

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For my husband and children: Joseph, Crista, and Nicholas. You color my world beautiful. — LM

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Being red is very important to Red. He takes his job seriously.

Being a color is a big responsibility.Red never wants to fail his hue.

Every day he worries about the business of all things red.

Sometimes he thinks so much about red, he doesn’t even think about the other colors.

Red is one of the three primary colors.He spends his days next to Yellow and Blue.

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Yellow loves being yellow.Tennis balls, bananas, rubber duckies.

Blue loves being blue.Rhinos, whales, bluebonnet flowers.

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One day, Red was deep in thought, thinking about strawberries, cherries, and roses.

Yellow stopped by and admired Red’s roses.“I must say, your roses are ever so beautiful!” said Yellow.

Red felt annoyed. Yellow had interrupted his concentration. Red said to Yellow in a snippy tone,

“Don’t you worry about my roses. My roses are my business. You go worry about your lemons, daffodils, and sunflowers.”

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It wasn’t the first time Red had given Yellow a hard time about his business. She didn’t let his irritability bother her. Yellow knew

he was just concerned about doing his own things well; but she also knew that they had an important job being primary colors.

Wanting to help Red understand, she said, “Being colors is who we are. You and I have an important job to do. We work together to make orange. Together we make pumpkins, newts, and carrots. It’s

all the colors together that make the world a remarkable place to be.”

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