21 Best Books About Colors for Kids with Autism

Are you working on teaching colors? These 21 best books about colors can help! I’ve used these books again and again in my autism center, with families in their homes and in special needs classrooms. Pair these books with my selection of videos to learn colors on YouTube.

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21 Best Books about colors for kids with autism

If you are looking for autism activities that teach colors, you will love this selection of books for your home, classroom or practice.

Use these tips if you are wondering how to teach an autistic child to read.

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My Very First Book of Colors By Eric Carle

This book is very visual, making it perfect for autistic learners. The top half of the page features the color and the bottom half of the page features the image. Just ask your child or student to identify the color of each object or animal as you turn the pages.

Brown Bear Brown Bear, What Do You See? By Eric Carle

I love Eric Carle’s beautifully colourful collages. This book is perfect for working on a variety of colors and a variety of animals, such a yellow duck, a blue horse, a brown bear, a green frog and a purple cat.

The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse By Eric Carle

This classic children’s board book features a collection of animals in surprising colors, such as an orange elephant, a purple fox and a red crocodile!

Cat’s Colors By Jane Carbrera

This big, bold and brightly cheerful book is the perfect tool to help little ones learn their colors.

Night Train, Night Train By Robert Burleigh

The perfect story for train lovers! As the train travels through nighttime landscape, the reader is introduced to pops of beautiful colors, until the train arrives and the reader discovers full color in daylight.

Red is a Dragon By Roseanne Thong

Follow the story of a young girl as she finds a rainbow of colors in her every day life.

White Rabbit’s Color Book By Alan Baker

This simple story about bunnies finding different colors is a delight for young children and a great way to teach the colors.

Mix It Up By Herve Tullet

This is a mess-free way to mix colors and teach your child or students about what happens when you mix different colors.

Baby Bear Sees Blue By Ashley Wolff

Baby bear sets out with his mama to learn about the world! From morning until night, he goes on a variety of adventures and learns about the different colors along the way.

Planting a Rainbow By Lois Ehlert

This book helps children understand how to plant bulbs and seeds and nurture little plants to grow, while also being the perfect tool to discuss a wide variety of colors.

The Rainbow Fish By Marcus Pfister

A Color of His Own By Leo Lionni

A heart warming story about finding your place in the world! The chameleon meets a pink pig, a grey elephant, yellow lemons and purple heather in the fields… Then one day he has the idea to remain on a green leaf so that he can stay green forever. A touching story that creates the perfect opportunity to teach your child or students the different colors.

Bear Sees Colors By Karma Wilson

Explore the colors with the Bear in this fabulous picture book.

Black Bird Yellow Sun By Steve Light

Journey with the black bird and his little worm friend past orange leaves, green grass, onto grey rocks and under pink flowers…

Blue Hat, Green Hat By Sandra Bounton

This whimsical little board book is the perfect tool for talking about colors with your little learner in a fun and silly way!

Mouse Paint By Ellen Stoll Walsh

This darling little book introduces the reader to the concept of mixing colors to create other colors.

Festival of Colors By Surishtha Sehgal

Introduce your little readers to colors while also learning about the Indian festival of colors. The gorgeous illustrations will captivate your little learners and bring them into the story.

Indestructibles : Baby, See the Colors! By Ekaterina Trukhan

Explore the world and learn about the colors! This collection of indestructible books is also perfect for kids with autism, and very young children, who may be hard on traditional books because they are rip proof and waterproof.

Lemons Are Not Red by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

The bright colors and clear text are perfect for working on colors and also the writing of each word ‘”red”, “yellow”, “green”, etc.).

Dog’s Colorful Day : A Messy Story About Colors and Counting By Emma Dodd

Follow the sweet pup in this story as he comes in contact with lots of different colors.

Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin

Learn about colors with these delightfully, wiggly monsters.

If teaching colors is on your list of goals, then you will love this selection of books that making learning colors easy and fun.

More Activities to Teach Colors

More Autism Learning Resources

The Successful Interaction with a Child with Autism Course – learn to better understand your autistic child or students with this complete course.
Autism Activities Workbook Bundle – build communication skills, fine motor skills, sensory play skills and daily living skills, while helping your child or students to successfully manage any difficult behaviors, with these fun, educational, printable activities.
Sensory Communication Workbook – Build communication skills with simple sensory activities.
How to Make a Communication Binder Guide & Workbook – Learn how to create a Communication Binder for your child or student with autism using real photos. Follow my expert guide to learn how to use it to increase communication skills.
Zoo Animals Play Dough Mats Bundle – use these printable play dough mat to work on the names of the animals, build language skills, and increase fine motor strength and precision in a fun, sensory way!