Bookstagang Best of 2023 Picture Book Award Winner | Best Read Aloud
For every young artist scolded for using the āwrongā color crayon, every boy teased for wearing a pastel shirt, every girl denied blue shoes, hereās the perfect response: All colors are for everyone. Just ask Nature!
No One Owns the Colors is a lively celebration of self-expression and a bolstering invitation to advocate for your special uniqueness.
The unnamed and non-gendered narrator shows us that colors are simply part of our natural world. No bit of the spectrumāfrom pink and blue to scarlet and chartreuseāis meant to be claimed by any one gender or being or culture. Color is not something that can be right or wrong, or better or worse.
Inspired by school yard experiences of the author's own children, this melodic, rhythmic text provides the words and the confidence readers may need if someone says that their colorābe it skin, shirt, shoes, or simply the crayon they love mostāis wrong.