Ryers Readers - The Color Kittens

Episode Date: March 3, 2023

What two colors make the color green?! Well, the Color Kittens are going to find out!

Let's do this! Thank you so much for tuning into today's story. Don't forget to tell your grown-up to go check out the Ryer's Reader's Instagram for more fun content. Before we get into the story, do you want to know a fun fact? Did you know that there are three main primary colors, red, yellow, and blue? With these three colors, you can make a huge, of different colors when you mix them. Without red, yellow, and blue, every other color we know would not exist.

Pretty cool, huh? Okay, story time. Today, we have a very special Ryer's Reader's request from three-and-a-half-year-old June. June would like to hear Color Kittins by Margaret Wise Brown. I hope you enjoy this story, June. Let's do this. Once, there were two color kittens with green eyes, brush, and hush. They liked to mix and make colors by splashing one color into another.

They had buckets and buckets and buckets and buckets of color to splash around with. Out of these colors, they would make all the colors in the world. The buckets had the colors written on them. But of course the kittens couldn't read. They had to tell by the colors. It is very easy, said Brush. Red is red, and blue is blue, said Hush. But they had no green, said Brush and Hush,

and they wanted green paint, of course, because nearly every place they liked to go was green. Green as cat's eyes, green as grass by streams of water green as glass. So they tried to make some green paint. Brush mixed red paint and white paint together. And what did that make? It didn't make green, but it made pink.

Pink as pigs, pink as toes, pink as a rose or a baby's nose. Then hush mixed yellow and red together. And it made orange. Orange as an orange tree. Orange as a bumblebee. Orange as the setting sun sinking slowly in the sea. The kittens were delighted, but it didn't make green. Then they mixed red and blue together. And what did that make?

It didn't make green. It made a deep, dark purple. Purple as violets, purple as prunes, purple as shadows on late afternoons, still no green. And then, wonderful kittens, oh brush, oh hush, at last, almost by accident, the kittens poured a bucket of blue and a bucket of yellow together, and it came to pass that they made a green, as green as grass, green as green leaves on a tree, green as islands in the sea. The little kittens were so happy with all the colors they made

that they began to paint everything around them. They painted green leaves and red berries, and purple flowers and pink cherries, red tables and yellow chairs, black trees, black trees with golden pears. Then the kittens got so excited they knocked their buckets upside down and all the colors ran together. Yellow, red, a little blue and a little black. And that made brown.

Brown as a tugboat. Brown as an old goat. Brown as a beaver. And in all that brown, the sun went down. And it was evening, and the colors began to disappear in the warm, dark night. The kittens fell asleep in the warm dark night with all their colors out of sight, and as they slept, they dreamed their dream. A wonderful dream of a red rose tree that turned all white when you counted to three.

one, two, three of a purple land in a pale pink sea, where apples fell from a golden tree, and then a world of Easter eggs that danced about a little short legs. And they dreamed that a green cat danced with a little pink dog, till they all disappeared in a soft gray fog. And suddenly, brush woke up and hush woke up. It was morning. They crawled out of bed into a big, bright world. The sky was wild with sunshine.

The kittens were wild with purring and pouncing. Pounce, pounce, pounce. They got so pouncy, they knocked over all the buckets, and the colors ran out together. There were all the colors in the world. and the color kittens had made them. The end. Don't forget to stick around to see if you can answer today's paying attention question.

Before you go, do you think you can answer today's paying attention question? What two colors mixed together to make purple? If your answer was red and blue, you did it! Great job! You sure were paying attention. I hope you enjoyed that story. I wonder what we're going to read next. Bye, June.

Hi, my name is you. Can you play cutter cans by Margaret Wise Brown? Thank you.