Feeling Blue? Try a picture book!

Just the book pair for a winter's day, these two will chase the blues away! Pull out your blue flosses and start stitching, your blue yarn and start knitting, or, as in these picture books, your blue paints and get going!

   Blue Chicken by Deborah Freedman, Viking, 2011 
Painting the barn is a big job and Chicken wants to help. When a jar of blue paint is spilled, the whole world is upset. Never fear, all is righted with some imagination and ingenuity!

 The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle, Philomel, 2011 
Master illustrator Eric Carle gives appreciation to one of his own early artistic heroes and shows young readers that colors, like opinions, can be changed.