White Rabbit's Color Book

Little Rabbit Books

by Alan Baker

White Rabbit's Color Book (Little Rabbit Books)

One inquisitive hop, and splash! goes White Rabbit into a bucket of yellow paint. Soon the little rabbit is jumping from bucket to bucket and learning all about colors and how they mix. Quivering with excitement, Brown Rabbit nudges open a square gift box and finds five balloons which take on all sorts of shapes. Gray Rabbit and Black-and-White Rabbit have their own adventures as they discover numbers and the alphabet. Toddlers will have fun and learn with these concept books, warmly illustrated with meticulous detail by Alan Baker.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Storytime, Animals, Art, Rabbits, Fiction

24 pages, Paperback

First published March 20, 2003

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Reviews

[Karina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved seeing bunny go into buckets of paint. Then the mixing and the new colors was fun to guess too. It’s just such a pretty little board book. Colors are bright and engaging for the little curious bigger in your life

[Annette Taylor-james · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is great for teaching about mixing colors put this book in your science center after reading to the children allow them to mix their colors following rabbit along his journey from white to guess what color? You will have to read it to find that out! The colors are vivid.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this book because the rabbit tries on different colors, and then he keeps taking a shower until the end, and then [spoiler alert] he stays a brown bunny for the rest of his life... I think? I don't know what the rest of the book is.

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

5/8/2024 - I love that this book taught how to mix colors to make new ones. I do wish that the ending would’ve had the rabbit taking another shower and loving the color they are.

[Clementine Lagarde · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book! This is a book for young children, it teaches them about colours that mix and become other colours.

One day white rabbit finds 3 pots of paint, red yellow and blue. She takes a fancy to sunshine yellow and jumps in the pot of paint! She then thinks the red paint looks interesting and jumps in that.... thus causing her to become orange! She quickly takes a shower to wash herself off. Then jumps back into the red paint followed by the blue paint turning herself purple. Princess purple rabbit then takes another shower whilst deciding which paint to jump into next.....

Ice cold blue looks good, so in jumps rabbit followed by the yellow paint to heat herself up and she is feeling cold. Low and behold she has turned green! Green rabbit realises that there is no water left and then sees the red paint left over so decides to see what happens when blue, yellow and red are mix. Thank goodness white rabbit ends up brown!

I have used this book in Nursery when teaching about primary and secondary colours. I found it a great way to explain to the children when teaching in carpet time. As and added extra you can give the children different coloured primary play dough to mix when reading the book and then ask them what colour they have at the end!

[Slytano · Rating 5 out of 5]

I always tell kids that I can't see colors very well. Why do I tell them this lie? Because Mr. Rogers was colorblind, and if he could not see colors well, then I shouldn't, either.

Plus, I'm just looking for a way to introduce the idea to kids that we are all different.

Plus, I'm not really sure if I do see colors correctly, if you want to know the truth.

Anyway, a white rabbit keeps hopping into different colored buckets of paint and follows up on its absurd task by taking a shower. By the end of the book, the rabbit is no longer white, and there is no longer any water for the shower.

I think this book is great for kids because it teaches them to pay the water bill on time or else they will turn colors.

[Katrina · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book teaches the secondary colors by illustrating a curiuos rabbit jumping into paint bowls of primary colors. This is one of of the only books like that I have found that teaches the three colors that make brown. Mouse Paint by Ellen Stolle Walsh has a better storyline in my book but the rabbit is cute too.

[Gela · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like it because it's has colors of the rainbow, except brown but I like brown too.
Adriana age 5.

[Kathryn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Utterly adorable rabbit goes exploring through some tubs of paint and discovers the magic of color. Sunshine yellow makes her bright as the sun, but she’s curious about red and – surprise! She’s orange! She tries red on its own, “sizzling hot red” and then thinks blue looks quite cool so she jumps into blue and, what’s this, she’s purple!” This is apparently part of a series and this one came out in 1994 so I’m sorry I didn’t know about them when my boys were toddlers. I smiled the whole time I read it.

[Mitchell Friedman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I needed to read a book with a rabbit on the cover to finish off the 2023 popsugar reading challenge (still 6 books to go and 9 days to do it) so figured I'd go to our permanent collection of always-out children's books. This is from a set of Rabbit books (and why read only one?). There's not a lot here. But the rabbit is cute, the writing is nice and not super obvious or absolutely repetitive. The art is a bit repetitive but works. And I still like the ending.

[Marian Librarian · Rating 5 out of 5]

07/30/25 Baby's first book of color theory, lol! Rabbit starts with three primary colors, creates secondary colors, and then the book ends on a tertiary color Rabbit has mixed - lovely, warm brown. I asked the children to guess what color they thought Rabbit would turn, which allowed the book to be interactive.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Received through the Imagination Library. My son, as 3 and 4, has loved having this book read to him. He knows his colors and color combinations, but there's just something fascinating about this story for him.

[Libby Hill · Rating 5 out of 5]

A five star rating for a spectacular concept book.

Such an engaging way for kids to start learning about the mixture of primary colors.

We read it 5 times in a row. I didn’t even mind.

Recommended for 0-4 year olds

[Clarissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

An adorable introduction to mixing different colors for young children. The white rabbit climbs into the yellow paint, and then into the blue paint and turns into a green rabbit, etc. The art is charming.

[Carol Farrington · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a simple book to begin explaining color mixing to children. It is even more fun if you do some color mixing afterwards. What better character to demonstrate the effects of color mixing than a white rabbit who can take on all the color changes? I highly recommend this book.

[Juliana Rios · Rating 3 out of 5]

Twas the night before Easter, and my boyfriend questioned if I’d ever read this book as a kid. So to YouTube we went for a read-a-long!

Super cute book! Good way to teach how primary colors work. I think the story of it all was a little dumb, and it ended quickly. But yeah, super cute.

[Dannaca · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book! We used it for our color themed story time. White rabbit takes a dip in several colors of paint and creates a simple and engaging way to teach kids about color mixing. It doesn't exactly rhyme but it has a great soothing rhythm and it was a good way to end our story time.

[Quinn · Rating 5 out of 5]

SO CUTE. loved the illustrations.
simple book about primary and secondary colors.
the drawings were nostalgic for me for some reason..

[Rachael Terry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very simple and short, learn about mixing colors.

[Amber · Rating 4 out of 5]

Primary and secondary colors

[Meg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Would pair with 'Dog's Colorful Day' for a color-focused toddler storytime.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book talking about primary colors and mixing colors!

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute, but it just reminded me of “Mouse Paint.”

[Caitlyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

The pictures in this book are very vivid and draw the reader in. This also teaches about colors and what happens when you mix them.

[Tracy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A repeat selection at our doctor's waiting room

[Elle · Rating 3 out of 5]

An adorable story that teaches colors using a bunny that finds paint to use to change/mix colors.

[Emily Prior · Rating 5 out of 5]

a great cute book about color.

[Tori · Rating 4 out of 5]

A white rabbit hops in several buckets of paint to try being different colors. A good color mixing book. Right up there with Mouse Paint for cuteness. Use for color-themed storytime.

[Maeve · Rating 4 out of 5]

Storytime:
Colors
Rabbits

[Koko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great childhood book I loved as a kid. There were other ones too.