It's cute, has fun pictures, and a nice little story line. Good for teaching kids colors and opposites. There are some other teaching opportunities like opposites and prepositions of place.

One starter approach is to pause and have your child fill in the word dog/dogs, which comes up a lot. She now uses it to tell me stories about all the dogs instead of having me read out to her. We also have a therapy dog that visits the local library....  Read More

I am delighted that this is still available today. I am sure that this book was a big influence on me becoming a big time reader as i grew up. Highly recommend all.

Dr. Eastman provides a great story with a good imagination. My 4 year old autistic great grandson loves to hear this story.

The new book has the exact same problem! This is not the version of the book that i read (over and over) as a kid. It is heavily simplified.