When Molly saw Luke’s big pumpkin she got a great idea!  She told her friends, Joe and Jake, that they could take the pumpkin to town and sell it and make a lot of money!  But Luke needed his pumpkin and that left Joe and Jake and Molly without a thing to sell.  But then Charlie and his friends landed and they gave some love cakes to Joe and Jake and Molly.  But then the three friends got into big trouble because they decided to keep the love cakes instead of giving them away like Charlie told them.  Well, you’d better read the rest of the story and color the pictures to find out what happened!

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Dorinda Clifton uses her unique combination of fanciful writing skills and distinctly off-beat artistic gifts to create a series of coloring books that are delighting children and parents. 

The stories, with their rhymes, rhythms, and repetitions, come from plays Dorinda wrote to help teach English to Czech theater students in Prague. She used her drawing skills to get across the meaning of the words in the stories.

Dorinda did pre-publication readings in public libraries to get feedback about the Color Me Crazy books from children and parents. This is what the kids said about Dorinda’s books: 

            “It’s a cool book.  Fun to read out loud.”  --- Brad, age 8
            “I colored the book and the envelope and sent it to my grandmother.” --- Harry, age 5
            “It’s like the pictures are asking you to color them.” --- Sue, aged 11.

A mom who saw the books at the 2006 Wordstock Bookfair in Portland, OR, laughed and said, “This is NOT Dick and Jane!”

The books are high quality, printed on heavy paper stock that takes all kinds of color including watercolor. Tucked inside each book, securely tied with ribbon, is a large envelope.  The book can be mailed in the envelope to a child as a gift, or the child can color the book and then use the envelope to mail the book to someone.