Each book in the My First Colours series focuses on one of the primary colours, with poetic text to evoke the qualities of their shades. This book highlights an urban environment through the cheeks of children in the snow, a bucket of strawberries, traffic lights and fire engines.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by Abbeville Press Inc. , U. S. .

Candace Whitman has written and illustrated three previous childrens books. Her book Night Is Like an Animal (1995) was named one of the New York Timess 10 best childrens books of the year. She holds degrees from Yale and from New York University and has taught art in elementary schools both in the United States and in Europe. She currently teaches art education at New York University.