Mixed A Colorful Story is as happy as a children’s illustrated book can get

Mixed A Colorful Story is a great example of a simple children’s book that succeeds beyond the demographics that its aiming for. On the cover there are three colored dots, red, yellow and blue.  These are the primary colors as I’m often reminded by our children.  A combination of them can create any color on Earth. In Mixed A Colorful Story we see that each color has their default personality. Reds are loud, yellows are bright and blues are the coolest. Everything is great until one day reds start saying that they’re the best.

Of course yellow disagrees with this because they’re the brightest-and bright things are always better than loud things? Blue are too cool to care about the hubbub and the colors build walls and fences to separate them from each other.

Eventually one yellow goes for a walk, sees a sad blue and realizes that they’re much better together than apart. There are some reds, blues and yellows that think that the two shouldn’t mix and question the others effect on the other one. But yellow and blue love each other so much that they get married, but in this case, as they’re just colored blobs, they mix. It’s a Petri dish of love and soon after that they welcome a healthy green blob.

Green’s not like blue or yellow, they’re their own deal with traits all their own. Soon the majority of the colors started to mix and they all liked it. They all started to take down wall that they physically built, as well as the fences and start living as one big, continuous colored blog community.

Mixed A Colorful Story is utterly charming. The art, especially after all of the colors realize that they’re better off mixed is fabulous. The city is set in detailed, cartoon style, black and white, while dozens of blobs populate the area. The book is oversized landscape and a treat to read. Its images are large, the text is simple-with some sight words for young kindergarten readers and the lessons in the book are for everyone.

Another bonus is that the book isn’t preachy. You adults might have picked up on some things that you might have construed as possibly being preachy or opinionated in the book. They are not presented that way in Mixed. It’s just simple, happy fun with a lesson that any age can appreciated and needs to learn. This is great stuff for ages three and up from Arree Chung.